From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Sep 12 03:20:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA17071 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 03:20:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA17065 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 03:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id DAA15398; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 03:19:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 03:19:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Marc Slemko cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ken Starr, Apache, FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG *sigh* I hate to admit it but you are right :( I get too excited in cases like this. However, I am afraid that if Yahoo! would be to make a Press Release they would leave apache and FreeBSD out of the picture since it would most likely be done by marketing droids. And saying "FreeBSD brings Starr's report via company X" won't work either. Ideas? -- Yan I don't have the password .... + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked .. | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time .... | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync ......... + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Marc Slemko wrote: >On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Jan B. Koum wrote: > >> >> Well, here is a start. Someone please edit it and maybe we can >> post it on the main site? >> >> >> FreeBSD + Apache brings Starr's report to masses via Internet. >> >> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE >> >> Walnut Creek, CA - As people all over the world glued to their computers >> in order to download report by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, some >> found problems connecting to the web sites. But not those who pointed >> their browsers to mirror site offered by Yahoo! at http://www.yahoo.com > >Bad idea even thinking of doing a press release on a company's operations >without the little step of talking to the company. > >PR people have carefully laid out plans for total world domination and get >quite upset quite easily. This is especially important in the very >volatile Internet stock world. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message