From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 25 9:37:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654DB15477 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:37:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24333; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:37:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd024308; Fri Jun 25 09:37:18 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA25085; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:37:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199906251637.JAA25085@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: PR broken? was Re: Linux not FreeBSD? To: gsutter@pobox.com (Gregory Sutter) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:37:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, zen@buddhist.com, brett@lariat.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990624153551.H97556@001101.zer0.org> from "Gregory Sutter" at Jun 24, 99 03:35:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Actually, this is exactly how efective advertising works. Perhaps > > he's trying for ubiquity for his ideas, as a means of getting them > > adopted. If it workds for McDonalds and Coca Cola... > > Hmmm, last I heard, we didn't encourage advertising in the FreeBSD lists. You mean advertising of ideas, like "unpopular ideas should be considered the same as unwanted stock solicitations", e.g. the above statement from you? 8-|. It's easy to say you don't want to see anything except what you want to see; it's practically impossible to implement. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message