Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc

From	cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
Newsgroups	comp.unix.solaris
Subject	Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Date	2025-10-19 15:26 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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In article <20251019102155.5779c40f@ryz.dorfdsl.de>,
Marco Moock  <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
>On 18.10.2025 15:19 Uhr Jesse Rehmer wrote:
>> > [snip]
>> > Deleting the Solaris groups was never on the discussion agenda...  
>> 
>> I'm aware and support the Big 8 Management Board's decisions to remove
>> inactive newsgroups, even though I'm an archiver.
>
>Fine, archives needs to exist and I love browsing and searching them.
>It is the way I joined Usenet.
>
>> I cannot speak on behalf of users of the BSD variants targeted by the
>> RFD (that part of UNIX history is very muddy to me),
>
>They are out of support for a long time, no recent discussion and not a
>single reply that someone is interested in those topics. It seems there
>are no lurkers or they don't care at all.

I broadly support the decision to remove the newsgroups named in
this proposal; the relevant BSD forks (BSDi, 386BSD) are unused.
It is possible that a hobbyist somewhere has, or will, bring
them up on some machine as an experiment, but I find it
difficult to believe that they have production users, let alone
such users who would reach out on USENET for support.  If they
do, then those users could post in a more general BSD-related
newsgroup.

>> but do know that the Solaris community is very much alive, regardless
>> of what Oracle is doing and what is present on Usenet today.
>
>That's great. Solaris still has support and seems to be in use - even
>when declining. Dunno about the Illumos users.

illumos has users, even commercial users!  I don't think that
community has much desire to use USENET, however.  illumos is
significant as the only actively maintained, open source System
V variant, at least as far as I am aware.

Note, as a minor aside, "illumos" is usually left uncapitalized.
I'm afraid I do not know the origin of this styling, but some
folks are known to get a bit salty about it.  :-)

I suspect that users wanting to use USENET for illumos related
topics would be well-served using a relatively generic Unix
group.

        - Dan C.

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Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-16 23:43 -0400
  Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-17 19:33 +0000
    Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-18 01:37 +0000
      Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-18 15:00 +0000
    Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm+solani@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-18 07:44 +0200
      Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-18 15:19 +0000
        Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-19 10:21 +0200
          Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-19 15:26 +0000
            Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-19 17:02 +0000
              Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm+solani@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-19 19:26 +0200
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-19 19:16 +0000
                Zoom on FreeBSD (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-20 12:36 +0000
              Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-19 21:19 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> - 2025-10-20 00:09 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-20 11:45 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-20 14:40 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-23 21:32 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-24 18:35 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2025-10-31 17:16 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) Tom Mix <tommix@dev.null> - 2025-11-01 14:56 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-11-08 00:58 +0000
                Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-10-20 14:56 +0000
    Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> - 2025-11-20 11:41 +0000
    Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Frank Winkler <usenet@f.winkler-ka.de> - 2026-02-17 18:19 +0100
      Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Marco Moock <mm+solani@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-02-17 20:59 +0100
      blame game (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2026-02-17 22:42 +0000
        Re: blame game (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> - 2026-02-19 10:11 +0000
          Re: blame game (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2026-02-19 13:31 +0000
            Re: blame game (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> - 2026-02-19 18:46 +0000
              Re: blame game (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) groenveld@acm.org (John D Groenveld) - 2026-02-19 20:57 +0000
                Re: blame game (was Re: RFD: Remove comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc) YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> - 2026-02-20 09:04 +0000

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