Proposal -- comp.unix.i386

[Dave Mack]

In article <2892 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>[description of System V/386 group deleted]
>
>In article <4379 at inco.UUCP>, mack at inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes a rather nasty
>response to my proposal.

I suppose I should have thrown in a few smileys. I didn't think they were
necessary. It was clear from your message that (as you indicate in the elision
above) the group you are proposing would focus on System V and Xenix 386 
systems. I was simply trying to point out that not all the world is SysV
and Xenix, nor are all 386 boxes PC clones.

>> Care to give that name a little more thought, Peter?
>
>Sure. I don't care what it's called, but since the naming question trashed
>the last two discussions I'd rather sit back and wait for a consensus, as
>I say here...

And you proposed the same name as the last few times? Interesting.

>> >Voting starts February 1st, and continues to March 2nd. Votes received before
>> >and after this period will be ignored. I'm not going to pay any attention
>> >to naming or hierarchy suggestions unless there seems to be a consensus that
>> >sysv386 or sysv.386 or whatever is unequivocally superior.
>
>> >This one is gonna be by the book.
>
>> Right. So we're going to have the 30-day discussion period between now
>> and Feb. 1, is that it? Which book was that?
>
>The last time I checked the book it was a 7-day discussion period, but
>if it's been changed I am quite willing to move the voting period up to
>the month of March.

Your book is obsolete. The 30-day voting period is called for in
the new users documentation Gene Spafford posts every month or so.
Although, given the increasing prevalence of NNTP links, maybe
this should be reduced.

>> unless you want this group to be a forum for discussion
>> of *all* 386-based Unix machines, I'd suggest finding some other name.
>
>Fine. Suggest a name that is unequivocally superior and get people to
>agree on it. I don't care. I just want to count the votes.

OK, no problem.

Dave Mack