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From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: 2nd call to vote comp.unix.sco, undecided?  PLEAD READ!
Summary: DOS a separate issue
Keywords: comp.unix.sco call votes sco
Message-ID: <4179@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 90 04:23:23 GMT
References: <216@pcssc.UUCP> <1990Apr26.173835.26100@ico.isc.com> <44@grumbly.UUCP> <511640@nstar.UUCP> <54@grumbly.UUCP>
Reply-To: aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney)
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In article <54@grumbly.UUCP> root@grumbly.UUCP writes:
>But the people who aren't interested in dos have to wade through all the
>dos articles to get to the unix posts.  At times there are quite a few
>dos related posts in c.u.i386.

Then how about comp.os.dos to consolidate DOS-specific issues, leaving
comp.sys.ibm.pc for hardware/firmware issues?  Wasn't this idea batted
around a while back?

>
>  UNIX
>--------   would be a natural for its own group.
>  DOS

Sure, something like comp.unix.dosmerge   (or something less proprietary)
>Is anyone interested in getting this going?  I'm not conversant in making
>new groups (no flames please - fry some ants with a magnifying glass
>or something).

Let's see what kind of feedback comes out...  in any event, I fail to
see how this helps to motivate an SCO-specific additional newsgroup...

> - -   Richard Ducoty                               ..uunet!grumbly!root

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