>    We've done it traditionally. We usually have the latest release up
>    and one back -- right now we have three up. We were going to get rid
>    of NetBSD-1.0 after someone did a final backup of the thing, but no
>    one seems to have and it got dropped.
> 
> hmm...
> 
> as i remember it, we deleted netbsd 0.8 and 0.9 with the agreement
> reached with USL, as they had the possibly-but-never-proven tainted
> source code.

That is correct.  removal of 0.8 and 0.9 was because of the agreement,
not because of any tradition.

whether or not there should be such a tradition is another matter, but
folks shouldn't claim that there's one already in place.


cgd