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From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) 
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > The Stanford bookstore stocks FreeBSD and Gordon Lehey's book.  If
> > you can tell me a little more about how this promotional give-away
> > program works, I can try to do something with it at Stanford--there
> > are quite a few local newsgroups including one on "bsd".
> 
> It's pretty simple - someone figures out where there would be room to
> spread out n FreeBSD CDs (and they should read about our Colombian
> friend's recent bad experiences before coming up with too high a
> number for n :) and they contact me.  I send them n CDs, they give
> them away, that's about the long and the short of it. :)
> 
> In some cases, folks also prepare a one-page handout to give away with
> the CDs which points people at the various online resources and,
> perhaps, also gives their own contact info in case people have
> problems.
> 
> 					Jordan

Okay, what would you like me to try to give away?  I would prefer to
try to promote the "most recent version", i.e. 2.2.5 when it comes
out, and maybe the 3.0 snap; or do you only give away the older ones?

Annelise