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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6122 ; Tue, 05 Jan 93 02:07:17 EST Xref: sserve news.announce.newgroups:2734 news.groups:56895 comp.unix.bsd:9680 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!bounce-back From: cgd@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.unix.bsd Subject: CFV: comp.os.386bsd.* Supersedes: <1ig2rbINN9lj@rodan.UU.NET> Followup-To: poster Date: 7 Jan 1993 10:03:41 -0500 Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us Lines: 123 Sender: tale@rodan.UU.NET Approved: tale@uunet.uu.net Message-ID: <1ihgodINN65k@rodan.UU.NET> Reply-To: mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net This is a Call For Votes (CFV) for the following groups: comp.os.386bsd.announce (moderated) comp.os.386bsd.bugs comp.os.386bsd.development comp.os.386bsd.apps comp.os.386bsd.questions comp.os.386bsd.misc All of them are intended to be devoted to the discussion of the 386bsd Operating System, a BSD Net-2 derivative. Discussion of this operating system is currently carried out on the newsgroup comp.unix.bsd. The proposed groups would have the following functions: comp.os.386bsd.announce (moderated): This would be a moderated newsgroup, for announcements relating to the 386bsd operating system. I (cgd@agate.berkeley.edu) would be the moderator. Things appropriate for the .announce group would include announcements of new versions of 386bsd, announcements of major software releases for 386bsd (e.g. new version of X11 for 386bsd), announcements of fixes for major bugs, and the like. FAQs relating to 386bsd should also be cross-posted to this group. comp.os.386bsd.bugs: This would be a forum for the presentation and discussion of bugs, patches, and suggested fixes for 386bsd and software which runs under it. comp.os.386bsd.development: Discussion of development efforts related to 386bsd. 386bsd is a research operating system, and there is much effort being put into expanding its functionality "correctly." This group would contain that discussion. Additionally, developers of device drivers, etc. could use this group to keep other 386bsd developers informed of their work. comp.os.386bsd.RFD.386bsd.apps: Discussion and questions about the applications which run under 386bsd would be posted here. Questions and comments about porting, as well as using, those applications would also be acceptable here. comp.os.386bsd.questions: General questions about 386bsd would be posted here. These could range from questions about installing the system, to general questions about 386bsd's inner workings, to questions about 386bsd system administration in general. Basically, all questions which don't fit in one of the other groups should be posted here. comp.os.386bsd.misc: Discussion about 386bsd which does not fall into the area of coverage of any of the other 386bsd groups. Things posted here should not be crossposted to the other 386bsd groups. Whatever groups pass will be created. (Hopefully, if any pass, at least .announce and .misc will...) HOW TO VOTE: The vote will last from the time this is posted on news.groups (by Dave Lawrence) until 12:00 (NOON) EST, January 31, 1993. (the following text provided by Jonathan Kamens, the vote-taker) In order to vote for or against this newsgroup, you must send a mail message to the address mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu (if you reply via mail to this message, your mail will be directed to that address). If your site does not understand that address, you might try: mail-server%pit-manager.mit.edu@athena.mit.edu mit-athena!pit-manager.mit.edu!mail-server uunet!pit-manager.mit.edu!mail-server If none of these addresses works, talk to someone at your site who can help you address the mail properly. Posted votes will not be counted. Votes mailed to the poster of this message will not be counted. Your mail should contain in its body one line for each vote you want to cast. The line should be in the format "vote newsgroup myvote", where "newsgroup" is the name of the newsgroup for which you are voting and "myvote" is either "yes", "no" or "abstain". To vote easily, you can cut-and-paste the following lines and replace the string MYVOTE at the end of each with the vote you want to cast: vote comp.os.386bsd.announce MYVOTE vote comp.os.386bsd.bugs MYVOTE vote comp.os.386bsd.development MYVOTE vote comp.os.386bsd.apps MYVOTE vote comp.os.386bsd.questions MYVOTE vote comp.os.386bsd.misc MYVOTE A vote of "yes" indicates approval of the newsgroup. A vote of "no" indicates opposition to it. A vote of "abstain" cancels any previous vote for or against it. Multiple votes from the same person should be sent from the same address, although they do not have to be sent in one E-mail message. If multiple votes for a particular group are received from the same person, the last vote received for that group is the only one counted. You should receive a response to your vote, acknowledging its receipt, within two days. If you do not, or if you have some other problem with voting, you can get help by sending mail to postmaster@pit-manager.mit.edu. The hardware resources for vote collection are being provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The vote-collection software is being provided by Jonathan Kamens <jik@athena.mit.edu>. Neither MIT nor Jonathan Kamens has anything to do with the newsgroup proposal; they're just collecting the votes as a neutral third party.