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Re: The Great Downsizing of comp.os.*

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On comp.os.linux.misc, Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> wrote:

> There is a proposal currently in news.announce.newgroups to remove 198
> unmoderated newsgroups all across the BIG8. Because of the magnitude
> of the group list the proposal is not crossposted to target groups.
> Instead pointers are posted to a few selected groups.
>
> The full text of the proposal is available here:
>
>   http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Nan:2011-02-01-rfd-great-downsizing
>   http://groups.google.com/group/news.announce.newgroups/msg/091abc69fd45436b
>
> Affected groups that might interest you:
>
> comp.os.chorus		CHORUS microkernel issues, research and developments.
> comp.os.inferno		The Inferno network operating system from Lucent.
> comp.os.lantastic		The LANtastic network operating system.
> comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm		MS-Windows communication applications.
> comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95		Running DOS&Win3 apps in Win95.
> comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win3x		Utility/add-on programs for Win3.x.
> comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.mail		Winsock email applications.
> comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.news		Winsock news applications.
> comp.os.ms-windows.networking.ras		Windows RAS networking.
> comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy		Windows NT advocacy arguments.
> comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release		Unreleased and beta Windows NT versions.
> comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware		Windows NT hardware setup.
> comp.os.ms-windows.pre-release		Pre-release/beta versions of Windows.
> comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia		Multimedia programming.
> comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.owl		OWL-based development for Windows.
> comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp		WinHelp/Multimedia Viewer development.
> comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win3x		Setup, hardware, and driver issues in Win3.x.
> comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95		Setup, hardware, and driver issues in Win95.
> comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup		Setup and Configuration of Windows 95.
> comp.os.msdos.mail-news		Administering mail & network news systems under MS-DOS.
> comp.os.netware.security		Netware Security issues.
> comp.os.os2.comm		Modem/Fax hardware/drivers/apps/utils under OS/2.
> comp.os.os2.programmer.oop		Programming system objects (SOM, WPS, etc).
> comp.os.os2.scitech		Real-time, engineering/CAD, sciences, etc.
> comp.os.parix		Forum for users of the parallel operating system PARIX.
> comp.os.xinu		The XINU operating system from Purdue (D. Comer).

>
> If you have any objections, please make them heard in moderated
> group news.groups.proposals. The "Followup-To:" header is set
> on this message, so simply replying to this post should do the
> right thing.
>
> --

This is comp.os.linux.misc

Why the hell would we care about a bunch of Windows groups?

I wouldn't allow that crap OS on any box I own.

Sid

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