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Date:      Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:54:58 -0700
From:      kevink@mindless.com
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <3.0.1.32.19980819005458.006931c0@pop.netaddress.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980820144227.46900@welearn.com.au>
References:  <35DBA22A.1651240E@athena.ualr.edu> <001c01bdcbec$289fbec0$5f8bf7ca@periscope.digital-canvas.com> <35DBA22A.1651240E@athena.ualr.edu>

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Hi...

Why pick on us Americans?  Dan is from .jp (last time I check, Japan was 
a different country than that of the USA).

Starting a .xxx origin war is stupid, and THAT has definatly nothing to do
with FreeBSD, and here I am contributing to it.



>I have two things to say on this:
>
>1. FreeBSD belongs to the world. Items of local interest have always
>   been seen as appropriate for this and all other FreeBSD lists. Now
>   maybe that only started because the "local interest" area was the USA,
>   but the precedent has been set. In fact, we've enjoyed many
>   disucssions relating specifically to what's going on in Canada, or
>   Thailand, or on one day in one room in one suburb of one USA city.
>   It's too late to stop now, even if we wanted to.
>
>2. Americans and others will attend this conference, just as Australians
>   attended USENIX (you know, that highly local event that speckled the
>   lists for weeks a while ago). We seem to value community more than
>   reducing the number of interactions. That's the way it is 'round here.
>
>3. In Australia, and in other places where microsoft is not used,
>   we read quoted email from the top to the bottom :-)
>
>4. I can't count.
>
>
>-- 
>
>Regards,
>        -*Sue*-
>
>
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