From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 14 13:10:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09614 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:10:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09605; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:10:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA02069; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:08:40 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990214140038.00b231c0@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:08:33 -0700 To: Mike Smith From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Windows Refund Day: Watch out for Linux tactics Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199902142050.MAA05249@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:50 PM 2/14/99 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >Brett - will _you_ be there? I'll be in Southern California. I was originally going to go to the Bay Area. But when I saw the FAQ and my friends the NetWare admins opted out (and also opted out of arranging to bring more NetWare people), I decided to stay in LA, where I'll already be on a consulting job. I'll have to fight traffic to get to one of their sites; traffic there is NASTY. >For all your irritation, you know how to >handle these people, as well as spot them. Remember that most of us are >tech types; give us a break. It's not hard. One of the best way is to have something WRITTEN to hand them, so that when they gather their notes the information is there. I'd recommend anything you have about FreeBSD, including the booklet that comes inside the CD-ROM. Copies of positive reviews will also get their attention, as will a simple "What is FreeBSD?" FAQ. Remember, about 3/4ths of the COMPUTER trade press has never heard of FreeBSD, and I expect that the number of people in the MAINSTREAM press who have heard of it is so vanishingly small as to be negligible. Just getting a mention in the stories that run on the major newswires would be invaluable. >I'll be at the Oakland staging area I expect. (Cursing that we don't >have the Daemon Babe outfits yet...) You're not talking about the blonde female daemon character that recently popped up in Daemon News, are you? ;-) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message