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#! rnews 1966 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: A call for sanity.. Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 07:45:42 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 30 Message-ID: <31ECFC96.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Over the last couple of weeks I've noticed an alarming increase in: 1. The number of Linux vs FreeBSD vs OpenBSD vs NetBSD vs Windows NT flamewars. 2. The number of articles cross-posted to all of the special interest newsgroups for the operating systems listed above. It would appear that it's time for everyone concerned to go back and read the netiquette FAQ again, paying especially careful attention to the part where they talk about cross-posting. This newsgroup here is for *FREEBSD* related postings, not Linux, not NetBSD, not OpenBSD. Last I checked, everyone but OpenBSD had their *own* newsgroups devoted more than adequately to those operating systems (and I guess OpenBSD could share NetBSD's newsgroups for now since they've the most in common architecturally) and there is NO NEED AT ALL to post messages meant for them to this newsgroup. If we all wanted to read about eachother's stuff, much less argue meaninglessly transient points of superiority, then we'd all have one big newsgroup on the net called "comp.os.all" (or maybe just "all" - why discriminate on the basis of OS? Bring the dog breeders and erotic picture folks in as well) and everyone could go insane trying to read it. In the meantime, kindly try to stay on topic and preserve what's left of our already battered signal-to-noise ratio. Thank you! -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project