From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) Subject: Re: please make comp.os.linux! Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 19:55:13 GMT
From: entropy@ee.WPI.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard)
Reply-To: entropy@ee.WPI.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 13:03:56 GMT
I thought the voting was over a long time ago but this group still
hasn't appeared.
No, actually the voting just ended yesterday at 7:00 EST (0:00 UTC). (I
suspect you were confusing the 1 month discussion period with the 1
month voting period.)
I'm currently in San Deigo attending a conference, so is rather
inconvenient for me to make sure all of the votes are correct and to
eliminate duplicates, etc. I plan to do that Tuesday or Wednesday,
after I return to Boston. After the voting results are posted, there
must be a five day waiting period while people can verify the votes and
complainin about any voting anamolies. After the waiting period, *then*
the newsgroup can be created.
Although I have not double checked all of the addresses of people who
have voted to eliminate duplicates, I have done a first pass over the
votes, and the unofficial results is roughly 850 yes votes and 5 no
votes. So it is extremely likely that the comp.os.linux newsgroup
*will* be created. Just please be patient while we work through the
formalities in the next week or two.
- Ted