From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 3 21: 1:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 146EC14E17 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 21:01:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 2028 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 1999 04:59:52 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 2006 invoked by uid 0); 4 Apr 1999 04:59:51 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 4 Apr 1999 04:59:51 -0000 Message-ID: <3706F193.873DE1F2@uswest.net> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 20:58:59 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Donald Wilde Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Installation Guide Project [Was: Re: FreeBSD Adovcacy] References: <37052E56.D243D4F6@thuntek.net> <37053C70.A99BEB29@uswest.net> <370540BF.C67A5442@thuntek.net> <37054D71.A05B12B4@uswest.net> <19990403115350.S413@lemis.com> <370584E6.796DD2A5@uswest.net> <19990403125339.V413@lemis.com> <3705E0A9.49257DF5@uswest.net> <370644D5.3A636821@thuntek.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Donald Wilde wrote: > > Re: your > > One of the things you'll have to get used to is that anybody who stands > up gets poked at, sometimes even by Project pillars like Jordan and > Greg. Use it to stiffen your resolve, and don't let it dismay you. Aye, point well taken. But this is my first serious attempt, couldn't yall have at least handed me a can of mace before throwing me to the dogs? :-) In all seriousness, though, that whole rant was more just me venting and rattling on like I do when I get passionate about something than a gripe. But hey, it sparked ernest discussion about a long-time misunderstanding/problem didn't it? > Stay the course, Darren. Talk to the -newbies and ignore the crabby, > jaded ones who've forgotten what it's like not to have a clue about BSD. > :-D I plan on soliciting for volunteers in -newbies. I just want to have some kind of a webpage up for them to read before waving the Uncle Sam posters. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message