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From: waltje@minixug.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Nomenclature
Message-ID: <9103303866@minixug.mugnet.org>
Date: 30 Mar 91 15:47:39 GMT
References: <9488@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: MINIX User Group Holland (NLMUG)   -  MUGNET  -
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In article <9488@star.cs.vu.nl>, ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) wrote:
> Here is a fragment from the arbitron ratings.  The interesting thing here
> (although I have peculiar taste) is that the existence of a newsgroup with the
> name a.b apparently does not prohibit one with the name a.b.c.  When the
> 45 gigabit fiber net is in place, it will be possible to have a group
> named alt.sex.pictures.moving without name conflicts.  
> 
> 
>    1 13606.2     307     35.91  7.1%     7.1%     alt.sex.pictures (5.5)
>   18  1624.3    1027      4.29  0.8%    24.7%     alt.sex (2.3)
> 
> Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
> 
> P.S. In case you missed all the symbolism here, what I am driving at is
> that if we must have two groups, then comp.os.minix and comp.os.minix.software
> would not be forbidden by network rules.

Right.  So, again, I vote for a "comp.os.minix.software", IF any group for
sources/patches/binaries is to be created.  This name covers it all, eh??

Fred.