From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Mar 28 18:12:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACBE156FD for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 18:12:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA22026; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:42:30 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA50043; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:42:28 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990329114227.V413@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:42:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brian Adkins , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Logo merchandise References: <4.1.19990328201237.00a7be10@mailbox.iwaynet.net> <36FEC37B.BBE26454@uswest.net> <19990329012929.XYHZ4957949.mta1-rme@wocker> <4.1.19990328203952.00a7d3e0@mailbox.iwaynet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990328203952.00a7d3e0@mailbox.iwaynet.net>; from Brian Adkins on Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 08:54:22PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 28 March 1999 at 20:54:22 -0500, Brian Adkins wrote: > At 01:28 PM 3/29/99 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: >> Actually Brian, this was not a discussion about which colour t-shirt I >> wanted. It was about presenting a clean-green image when it came to t- >> shirts. Which *is* advocacy AFAIK. > > Dan, if you think 12 separate posts about the bloody color of a t-shirt is > significant in helping the FreeBSD project, then have at it man! Let me > ask you this, though. If you were someone evaluating operating systems and > you were lurking in the advocacy list for several of them and most of what > you saw on the FreeBSD list was what you see below, would you get a good > feeling about where the project was heading and what the vision and > priorities were? That would depend on who you were. You've just made your viewpoint clear; others have different viewpoints. I hope that this is not going to be *all* we see on the subject of advocacy, but I think that a discussion of these things isn't completely off-topic. Sure, not every message posted is of interest to everybody. Just delete the ones which don't interest you. But I suspect that that's the real problem: handling the volume of mail. Microsoft mailers don't do well here. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message