Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!vixie!paul
From: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: ISC 386/ix Clarifications (from the info-386ix moderator)
Message-ID: <783@vixie.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 07:13:34 GMT
References: <8621@ism780c.UUCP> <867@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq)
Organization: Vixie Enterprises, San Francisco
Lines: 37
Keywords: Interactive 386/ix

In article <867@xn.LL.MIT.EDU> olsen@xn.UUCP (Jim Olsen) writes:

>In article <8621@ism780c.UUCP> mikeb@ism780b.UUCP (Mike Bessey) writes:
>>As a matter of policy, ISC will participate sparingly in usenet groups
>>to avoid suspicions of commercialism.

I am the moderator of the info-386ix mailing list; I read this article on
USENET a few days back, and I'm holding off my reply until I see whether
ISC sends it to the mailing list as well.  Just in case anyone is holding
their breath :-).  (I *do* have a bit to say in reply.)

>>   There have been requests for a list of distributors.  We have
>>   decided not to include it in this widely distributed response,
>>   because it may well be thought inappropriate.  Instead, we'll ask
>>   permission of each distributor to be included in a restricted
>>   listing.  This is expected to include roughly a dozen names and to
>>   be posted next week to the info-386ix mailing list.

Not yet, it hasn't been.

>I'm sure that such a list would be of wide interest.  Since ISC is bashful
>about posting it, would someone else on info-386ix please post the list
>here when it comes out?

I will do this, so long as ISC does not include any redistribution
restrictions.  I will, however, mail it out to anyone who asks; further,
if you are not on the info-386ix mailing list yet and you have anything
to do with *any* AT&T UNIX(tm) System V rel 3 (other than Xenix/386)
on *any* 80386 system (Intel 310/320, AT-386, etc), you OUGHT to be on
the list.  I've got 80 subscribers so far, and if I get another 20 or
so, I can ask for a moderated newsgroup.  Keep those cards and letters
coming!
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Paul A Vixie Esq
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