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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:30:09 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        opentrax@email.com
Cc:        grog@lemis.com, lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: accessing portal site
Message-ID:  <3A100901.B4D7811@softweyr.com>
References:  <200011130610.WAA05168@spammie.svbug.com>

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opentrax@email.com wrote:
> 
> On 13 Nov, Greg Lehey wrote:
> > On Sunday, 12 November 2000 at 20:18:57 -0500, Lanny Baron wrote:
> >
> >> In no way did I make any representation or link between myself and The
> >> FreeBSD Project or any of its communities.
> >
> > By copying -advocacy, you implied exactly that.  Please don't do it
> > again.  You're more than welcome to behave in whatever manner you see
> > fit, but have the courtesy to not raise the impression that
> > FreeBSD-advocacy is behind you.
> 
> As I see this posting, this person is informing us of some
> rather important information, which we might want to take note of.
> The topic, while NOT belonging to 'advocacy', is of importance
> to those who advocacte *BSD. Personally I can recount many
> such stories, but this is not about me.

That's what BCC: was invented for.  Greg is exactly right in that publicly
copying an address @freebsd.org implies some sort of complicity or agree-
ment on the part of the FreeBSD project.  I certainly did not agree with
the tone of Lanny's original message.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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