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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-15.sprintlink.net!news.rain.net!pacifier!downsj From: downsj@threadway.teeny.org (Jason Downs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,news.groups Subject: Why you should not vote NO for comp.unix.bsd.openbsd Date: 12 Feb 1997 01:22:22 GMT Organization: OpenBSD Lines: 32 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dr60e$rk2@news.pacifier.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: teenyrtr.pacifier.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5348 news.groups:8661 The second CFV for the comp.unix.bsd.openbsd newsgroups was recently posted to comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc; the first one was also posted to comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce. These groups were posted to in addition to the groups listed in the CFV, without approval or knowledge of the group proponents or of the OpenBSD organization in general. As far as we can tell, the additional posting was requested by David Lawrence; we do not know what his reasoning for this was. Regardless, we believe that it is in the best interest of the NetBSD Community to refrain from simply voting "NO" in response to the CFV. It is common, for instance, to find OpenBSD developers reading and posting to the NetBSD newsgroups for lack of a better forum, often to the chagrin of the NetBSD Community. Any apparent, organized, series of "NO" votes from the NetBSD Community will also damage the credibility of all concerned, something which noone can afford to do. We feel that the NetBSD Community should carefully consider these and other potential outcomes before voting in the OpenBSD CFV. By all means, vote as you personally see fit-- we are not advocating you vote "YES", just that noone votes "NO" simply out of some misguided sense of animosity. There is also the "ABSTAIN" option for those that wish to use it. -- Jason Downs downsj@teeny.org --> teeny.org: Free Software for a Free Internet <-- http://www.teeny.org/ Little. Yellow. Secure. http://www.openbsd.org/