plocher@uport.UUCP (John Plocher) (08/23/88)
In article <109@jetson.UPMA.MD.US> john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens) writes: > comp.unix.i286 UNIX on systems using the Intel '286 CPU > comp.unix.i386 UNIX on systems using the Intel '386 CPU > (delete comp.unix.xenix and comp.unix.microport) >and another popular one: > comp.unix.intel UNIX on systems using Intel CPUs > (delete comp.unix.xenix and comp.unix.microport) Please note, however, that *never* in the history of Usenet has a newsgroup been completely and successfully renamed. Proof: There are still net.sources articles bouncing here and there... :-) It sounds great to some people (let's trash .xenix and .microport), but knowing the inertia of the net, it just won't fly. Too many people don't keep up with their news software, and they don't know enough (or are paranoid enough) so they don't automagically process control messages. It took a good 4 months to get .microport to the point that enough people were reading it to make it viable; let's not start all over again just because someone has this great Idea for renaming things. What with Vr3.2 just around the corner the whole landscape will change and the 286/386/unix/xenix camp will get a little closer together. BUT, there will *still* be those with Xenix (IBM 2.0, 68K...) and those with *non* Vr3.2 Unix (Xenix 2.3 is *not* the same as Vr3.2, email me if you don't know why). Simply deleting .xenix and .microport won't help THOSE users a bit! I like the idea of creating .intel or .286/.386 groups; I just think that deleting the .xenix and .microport groups is premature. Even though they all are "unix", the admin and installation procedures are SO different between them that lumping them together would lead to quite a bit of "noise" postings: I am interested in 3.2 on a Compaq 386: I don't care about V/386 3.0 or Xenix 2.3; why should I wade thru those postings in *my* group? I am interested in Xenix 2.3, but everyone here seems to be only interested in 3.2; what do I do? I use Xenix on a Tandy 68K, now they deleted my .xenix group, where do I go? Xenix isn't reliable: ruptime /dev/maytag says 25 years! na na nana na I use V/AT and V/386; I want to flame uport, now I have to type two newsgroups on the line. This is too much like work, I think I'll just call them! :-) -John Plocher (Its me, I tell you, ME!)
wisner@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bill Wisner) (08/24/88)
>Please note, however, that *never* in the history of Usenet has a newsgroup >been completely and successfully renamed. Back up here. comp.hypercube got renamed to comp.parallel earlier this year more or less without a hitch.
samperi@marob.MASA.COM (Dominick Samperi) (08/24/88)
In article <433@uport.UUCP> plocher@uport.UUCP (John Plocher) writes: |> I use V/AT and V/386; I want to flame uport, now I have to type two |> newsgroups on the line. This is too much like work, I think I'll just |> call them! :-) ^^^ Not funny. -- Dominick Samperi, NYC samperi@acf8.NYU.EDU samperi@marob.MASA.COM cmcl2!phri!marob uunet!hombre!samperi (^ ell)