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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Subject: Re: Rumour: UCB considering dropping defence of BSD
Message-ID: <1992Oct26.122310.7269@pegasus.com>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
References: <1c3q1jINNoah@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <1992Oct22.034539.12650@athena.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 12:23:10 GMT
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>: I have heard a rumour today from a foafoaf (so some disbelief is acceptable) 
>: that UCB is considering dropping their defence of BSD.  This perhaps
>: explains why they have discontinued the distribution of NET/2, and have
>: solicited Real Mail (tm) from organisations to explain to them why they
>
>Real Mail (tm) - Do you mean like as in send UCB a letter in an envelope?
>If so, were do we need to send our urgent pleas to prevent this catastrophy??
>I'm all for a paper hurricane to UCB if it'll convince them that it is
>worthwhile to defend BSD.  [...]

What the hell ever happened to the paper hurricane that should have
been directed toward AT&T/USL?

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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com