Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site vu44.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!vu44!jack From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: before the flames start... Message-ID: <543@vu44.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 08:19:22 EST Article-I.D.: vu44.543 Posted: Sun Dec 30 08:19:22 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jan-85 05:45:24 EST References: <6826@brl-tgr.ARPA> <6827@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: The Retarded Programmers Home, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 26 > ... What do we consider the established purpose of > this list to be? Is it to discuss "political" issues, technical issues, > or both? I think that you can't avoid political (or, probably better, phylosophical) issues. If I would ask how to integrate support for RSX-11 file systems in the kernel, I can be sure that 99.9% of the discussion would center around the fact that it is *wrong* to do this, on historical, phylosophical, ethical, moral and other grounds. I think that this is right, too. Simple things like bug fixes, etc. are handled in net.bugs.*, and this group can have a much vaguer type of traffic. Of course, discussing the sales policy of ATT isn't one of the items this group was created for, but the amount of traffic on it seems to indicate that there is a fair amount of interest in it among the unix-wizard readers. I think that splitting the group into a pure technical and a more phylosophical group is undesirable, for the reason stated above, being that technical discussions tend to become phylosophical after a while. -- Jack Jansen, {seismo|philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack or ...!vu44!htsa!jack If *this* is my opinion, I wasn't sober at the time.