Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!wfkonij From: wfkonij@cs.vu.nl (Konijnenberg WF) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: comp.os.minix splitup Summary: support for comp.sources.minix Message-ID: <9158@star.cs.vu.nl> Date: 4 Mar 91 14:27:17 GMT References: <1991Mar1.213647.13550@mp.cs.niu.edu> <30737@usc> <9146@star.cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 38 In article <9146@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: >In article <30737@usc> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes: >>This is a very good idea, and also a very good name. I like >>comp.sources.minix for a name. >I think that splitting along CPU lines is not a good idea. Agreed. There are already too many people unaware of the existence of any other type of computer than theirs. (cf. the vile heresy of "all the world's a VAX". :-) >As to a sources group, it is a possibility, but I'd be surprised if >there were many people who would read one but not the other. If there >are such people, please post messages explaining why. I would. Reason: I tend to skip all source that I see coming by. When I see it, I usually don't need it. When I need it, I can dig it up from an archive. A periodical overview of newly (and properly) arrived sources on the comp.os.minix group might be useful though. >... If we do split, I have a small >preference for comp.os.minix.sources rather than comp.sources.minix, >i.e., it is "our" group. Let's follow the general newsgroup structure and call it comp.sources.minix. >I think the sources group should be unmoderated. >Before starting on a voting procedure, which should follow the normal >net news rules, I think we should have a discussion here to see what >we think. -- -- Willy Konijnenberg Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam