Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:49:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Josef El-Rayes <josef@daemon.li> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-users list - semi regular post Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050123184749.46157V-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20050123181902.GB7693@daemon.li>
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > Christopher Mark Conn <cmc3list-bsd@yahoo.com>: > > > please stop that spamming, there are other ways > > > to promote your list. > > > > I welcome your suggestions on other ways to promote > > the list, Josef. > > > > But my posts are not spam, they're announcements. > > sure, and i appreciate your effort, but imagine how it would be if every > freebsd related website, mailinglist usergroup and so on would do this > kind of regular announcements? While spamming is probably a bad thing, one of the things the FreeBSD Project hasn't done such a great job in supporting in the past is third party sites that provide FreeBSD-related services, lists, web pages, etc. My feeling has always been that we should try to do a better job about this, although I'm not sure of exactly what steps we should take. As such, I think that an occasional post here and there, or maybe just after a list has been started, makes a lot of sense and is something we should avoid treading on. If someone wants to run more FreeBSD mailing lists, by all means we should help them :-). Robert N M Watson
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