Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!jpc From: jpc@fct.unl.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: comp.os.minix splitup Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 91 18:53:14 GMT References: <9222@star.cs.vu.nl> <5M.9Z65@xds13.ferranti.com> <9302@star.cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@fct.unl.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 41 In-Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl's message of 14 Mar 91 14:14:08 GMT In article <9302@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: > > [...] > > Anarchy has worked pretty well so far. Amen. :-) > [...] > > I could live with an unmoderated comp.os.minix.sources or maybe > comp.os.minix.code or comp.os.minix.patches just to emphasize that the group > is not intended for the exclusive posting of public domain sources. Better be code because sources would atract lot's of flak, and patches is only part of the traffic. > I would prefer to keep comp.os.minix, but if for technical reasons groups > with the syntactic structure a.b.c.d and a.b.c are not allowed, then > comp.os.minix could become comp.os.minix.d or comp.os.minix.disc. It's allowed, look at comp.binaries.ibm.pc & comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d > I think any voting proposal should at least have several possibilities. > My own preferences from best (1) to worse (5) are: > > [...] > > 2. comp.os.minix and comp.os.minix.code (unmoderated) | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It's the only way to fly ! -- Jose Pedro T. Pina Coelho | BITNET/Internet: jpc@fct.unl.pt Rua Jau N 1, 2 Dto | UUCP: ...!mcsun!unl!jpc 1300 Lisboa, PORTUGAL | Home phone: (+351) (1) 640767 - If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister ?