Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:3000 comp.unix.microport:1305 news.groups:5160 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.microport,news.groups Subject: call for discussion: how should these U**X/*86 newsgroups be named? Summary: I propose comp.unix.i286 and comp.unix.i386 Message-ID: <51@volition.dec.com> Date: 15 Aug 88 23:43:32 GMT References: <25145@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <465@sp7040.UUCP> <11643@steinmetz.ge.com> <728@wb3ffv.UUCP> <101@jetson.UPMA.MD.US> Followup-To: news.groups Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 45 In article <101@jetson.UPMA.MD.US> john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens) writes: # comp.unix.i286 # comp.unix.i386 This is what I proposed some months back; noone was quite happy with it. I want to see some discussions in news.groups about this -- everybody was more than happy to toast me for suggesting this last time; I want those flames to reappear and devour eachother. To wit: comp.unix.microport destroy comp.unix.xenix destroy comp.unix.sysv.i286 new group, moderated if some silly person volunteers; for discussion of all 286 UNIX System V software. (286 UNIX variants are more like eachother than they are like any- thing else.) comp.unix.sysv.i386 new group, moderated if some idiot wants the job. rationale similar to .i286 above. I will dissolve (mostly) my info-386ix@vixie mailing list if this is created; I withdraw my previous offer to moderate the group, tho. For those of you who dislike four-component names -- I am still hoping for a native 386/AT port of BSD to come into existence, and I want to leave room in the name space early on. For those of you who want groups named after products or companies -- go play in the biz.all hierarchy; this is Usenet. For those of you who have well-considered alternatives to what I propose -- speak up! I especially want to hear from Bill Davidsen (sp), in case he has an idea for where 386users can fit into all this. Don't send me mail, I won't summarize, please have a public flame fest. (Speaking as an individual, not an employee or spokesman of DEC.) -- Paul Vixie Digital Equipment Corporation Work: vixie@dec.com Play: paul@vixie.UUCP Western Research Laboratory uunet!decwrl!vixie uunet!vixie!paul Palo Alto, California, USA +1 415 853 6600 +1 415 864 7013