Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 18:24:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: dhagan@cs.vt.edu, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD offerings by Gateway 2000 Message-ID: <199904231824.LAA25659@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <A6D02246E1ABD2119F5200C0F0303D10FF07@octopus> from "paul@originative.co.uk" at Apr 22, 99 01:29:50 pm
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> If people are going to send things like this to Gateway (or anyone else) > please don't CC it to the advocacy group. It totally negates any positive > advocacy you might achieve. In particular, there are two glaring problems: 1) Exposure of the list address makes it look insincere, and instead a result of an organized campaign, even if, as in this case, it wasn't. 2) Exposure of the intended recipient to follow-up replies having to do with meta discussions or corrections and contradictions by others who do not note the recipient is included. Again, this makes it look insincere, but worse, it weakens the message considerably, since not only is it apparently an organized effort, it is also apparently an amatuerish and poorly organized effort, if the externally visable front they present is not united. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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