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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 16:18:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Darren Pilgrim <dmp@aracnet.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.5-R CD sets?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007241559260.16336-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000724145927.A4911@orion.ac.hmc.edu>

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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:55:44PM -0700, D M P wrote:
> > Brooks Davis wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 10:20:22AM -0700, Linh Pham wrote:
> > > >
> > > > this has probably been covered before, but does anyone know if the 3.5.x
> > > > CD's will be part of the subscription releases or will 4.1 be the only
> > > > one?
> > > 
> > > 3.5 will not be part of the subscription.  IIRC, the 3.5 disks almost
> > > got cancled, but there turned out to be sufficient demand.
> > 
> > What was the reasoning for its exclusion?
> 
> If you mean the exclusion of 3.5 from the subscription, it was because
> 4.0 has generally been such a good release and 3.5 is such a non-entity
> relative to 3.4 that it was felt that most people wouldn't want it.  Or
> at least, that's my understanding.

Fair enough.  Just the same, though, I'll be ordering 3.5 sets when they're
released.



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