From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 16:20:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news.ccil.org (news.ccil.org [192.190.237.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2959B14DD3 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:20:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from editor@news.ccil.org) Received: from editor by news.ccil.org with local-esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 12Aiun-0004on-00; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:24:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:24:01 -0500 (EST) From: "LinuxExpo.Net Editor" X-Sender: editor@news.ccil.org To: Brett Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Exhibitor preview of Linux World In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I looked over your website quite extensively, and nearly every page has : freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG at the bottom of the page, with no reference to it being a mailing list. It might be better to make it more clear who one can use at contacts. Since then, I've dug deeper and found a "who's responsible for what" page, but there is no indication of contacts on the top pages. Thanks Kathy On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi Kathy, > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, LinuxExpo.Net Editor wrote: > > > I guess I'll take a print out of your note and show it to the folks at > > the booth and explain it's all we got as a response to an offer to > > promote your group. > > The problem is you did not send the email to the developers of FreeBSD, > nor Walnut Creek, the primary distributor, but to a mailing list designed > to answer users' questions about FreeBSD. This list is populated by a > large number of new users and a few experienced users to help the new > people, but is not (primarily) populated by the core group of developers > due to the low signal to noise ratio. > > Your email would have been better sent to freebsd-core or at least > freebsd-advocacy. The -core address would have gotten you the core group > of developers. At this point, I would recommend you contact Jordan > Hubbard directly at jkh@freebsd.org. > > I'm sorry this occurred - as with anything, you don't always get > represented well by users. This user is not officially associated with > the FreeBSD core team and I would hope that you don't hold it against us > (not that I'm any more officially associated than he was - I am however > associated w/ Daemon News, a BSD ezine and have contributed work to the > FreeBSD project). > > Brett > ***************************************************** > Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * > Dept of Chem and Physics * > Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * > Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * > Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * > ***************************************************** > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message