Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:43:44 -0400 From: "'Michael Lucas'" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: advocacy@freebsd.org, newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD Magazine Message-ID: <20000913174344.A73203@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <15727.968875712@winston.osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com on Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 01:08:32PM -0700 References: <phire@jigaboos.com> <15727.968875712@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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[cc butchered for the general audience] On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 01:08:32PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > we'd PAY for a hard copy that we could hold in our hands and read.. Are > Great, could you guys just quietly count yourselves up and send the > total to BSD Magazine, care of ASCII publishing in Tokyo, Japan? :-) The ASCII folks are certainly going to want information that we on this list can't provide without some serious pulling-numbers-out-of-bodily-orifice-of-your-choice. Remember the three kinds of math: lies, damned lies, and statistics. We'd be creating the worst of the lot. :) I still say the best way to get a BSD magazine is to get more BSD articles in print. Once we hit a certain critical mass, a publisher will start it on their own. Heck, if DB2 has a magazine, we can. Right now, months can pass without a single BSD article in print. We have one book, although more is on the way. When you see a BSD article in print, contact the editor. Let them know you found the article informative, and would like to see more of them. Many paper publishers shoot articles into the dark and hope that nobody bitches too much about them. Compliments stand out much more because of it. Believe it or else, editors want articles that are well-written and coherent. If you can put words in a row, apply grammar and a minimum of thought, they'll buy it. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to excuse myself from this thread and go put my keystrokes where my mouth is. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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