Hi der,

you wrote in <199602250328.WAA00550@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>:
> Which means the irc server in question is broken; ...

I agree. But we probably won't be able to convince all the IRC admins
out there to update their servers.

> ... there's no OS name registered for UNIX-alikes that aren't real
> UNIX, and certainly none for NetBSD itself.

Yes, I discovered that myself while looking into RFC 1700. Why don't
we simply register "NetBSD-1.0", "NetBSD-1.1" and maybe "NetBSD-current"
at the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority?

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Matthias Scheler
tron@lyssa.owl.de