why we have to keep comp.unix.xenix

Paul Vixie vixie at decwrl.dec.com
Thu Aug 25 03:05:44 AEST 1988


Ooops!

In article <78 at volition.dec.com>, I wrote:
# [My proposal,] for the record, is:
# 
# 	comp.unix.sys5.286	(for V/AT and similars)
# 	comp.unix.sys5.386	(for 386/ix and derivatives)
# 	comp.unix.xenix		(for Xenix on all manner of CPUs)
# 	comp.unix.microport	(wait for volume to fall off,
# 				 then delete it.  Post messages
# 				 to it regularly telling of the
# 				 existence of comp.unix.sys5.*  I
# 				 will do this.)

I meant:

 	comp.unix.sys5.i286	(for V/AT and similars)
 	comp.unix.sys5.i386	(for 386/ix and derivatives)

You can't have totally numeric group name components.  All my previous
proposals have had "i"'s, and this one was meant to as well.
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