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From: oc@vmp.com (Orlan Cannon)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att,news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: comp.sys.3b1
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.025651.11472@vmp.com>
Date: 20 Nov 90 02:56:51 GMT
References: <1990Nov19.040128.29048@bagend.uucp> <72909@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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In article <72909@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) writes:
>I for one concur with nearly everything Mr. Isley said in his posting.
>I think he left out one other reason for creating comp.sys.3b1:
>
>One other reason for creating comp.sys.3b1 is that now we are having lots
>of erroneous posts to unix-pc.* by people who are running *nix clones
>on their 80xx6 PC-clone machines, thinking that unix-pc means "unix on
>an IBM-PC (clone) machine.

Not to mention that "unix-pc" is listed as an "alternative" distribution,
which means that news administrators are likely to associate it more with
"alt.sex.pictures" than with a normally distributed discussion group about
a particular hardware platform.


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