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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: comp.os.minix splitup
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Date: 21 Mar 91 11:45:22 GMT
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In article <31178@usc> kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes:
>I think it would be good to have a moderated group for officially
>sanctioned stuff, and it is obviously necessary to have a non-moderated
>group for the masses to dump into.  For me, it is sometimes hard to
>determine just what is officially approved, and what isn't.

Who would do the official approving?  Certainly not me.  The stuff that
I take and use appears in the periodic new releases, like the 1.6.15 one
I just sent to the beta list.  I don't want to set up a continuous process
of reviewing everything that comes in and approving/rejecting on the fly.

There is a MINIX referees mailing list that might do such approving, but
it hasn't worked terribly well (i.e, nobody ever sends anything to it).
Hence I don't think an official newsgroup is a good idea.  You can see what
I post by looking at the header to see the origin.


Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)