Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!bbn!uwmcsd1!uwmacc!hobbes!root From: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,news.admin Subject: Re: time to make a new newsgroup, filk Message-ID: <210@hobbes.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 07:41:33 EDT Article-I.D.: hobbes.210 Posted: Thu Sep 10 07:41:33 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 16:36:15 EDT References: <1121@gilsys.UUCP> <372@micropen> Reply-To: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) Followup-To: comp.unix.xenix Organization: U of Wisconsin - Madison Spanish Department Lines: 41 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.xenix:721 news.admin:986 > [much blathering on Microport and anti-intel flames and anit-68K flames rm'd] In June/July of this year I collected votes on a comp.unix.sys5 group to be formed for the express purpose of being a place for uport and other system V OSs. [reference <170@hobbes.UUCP> in news.groups] Of the 60some votes I got, all but ONE were in favor of the sys5 group, and about half also were interested in a Microport specific group. The editor of the Microport mailing list also was in favor of a microport group. We all were in agreement that the xenix group was the *wrong* place for this discussion! Greg Wood @ hao is now the bottleneck in the way of getting the group formed. In the 2 months time since I concluded this poll I heard from mark horton who was concerned that the name should be ...sysv instead of ...sys5 even though there is already a comp.bugs.sys5. Spaf was in the process of moving, but he finally replied that Greg was handling this; several other "names" replied voicing agreement. NONE of the backbones who replied were against the group; all thought it was a Good Thing! I submitted a proposal to the backbone (cbosgd.att.com!backbone) which followed all the points of the proposed AND strawman newgroup guidelines, demonstrated a sizable audience (50+ votes PLUS the readership of a 60 person-and-growing-by-5-or-10-weekly mailing list), and showed that there was a large volume of postings in inapropriate newsgroups (xenix, ibm.pc). What more can Greg ask for? If he is waiting for something, why isn't he asking? If all's hunkey-dorey then where's the newgroup message? -John Plocher PS. DosMerge 1.30 (based on the 2.3 kernal) is wonderful! !Much! better than the 0.3 Beta version shipped in June! The product makes your Unix filesystem into C: while E: becomes the DOS partition on your hard disk. Running Reflex from within Unix is fun; using Microsoft C 4.0 is better, but running Kneller's PC-DOS version of Larn (with colors...) takes the cake! The 2.3 kernal fixes most of the known kernal bugs - I am still going thru the buglists from uport to verify their claims! InfoWorld this week is bubbling over the new ATT micros which "will run Unix and DOS at the same time" - I've been doing that on my AT clone for 3 months now... :-) -- John Plocher uwvax!geowhiz!uwspan!plocher plocher%uwspan.UUCP@uwvax.CS.WISC.EDU