Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:03:07 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Stuart Krivis <stuart@apk.net>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: phil grainger <freebsd@pronet.net.au>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copyright Message-ID: <v0401170ab1a72a84a92b@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980612104636.6494B-100000@junior.apk.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612001710.285A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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At 10:55 AM -0400 6/12/98, Stuart Krivis wrote: >On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > >> FreeBSD-advocacy is in it's infancy. Advocacy hasn't really even >> formed yet. Currently, it is merely a mailing list. > > I believe that advocacy consists of things like: > > "I use this ______ (fill in blank) and am very happy with it." I still think this mailing list suffers from the name that was given to it. In usenet heirarchies, the "advocacy" newsgroup is where to send all the endless philosophical discussions, or name-calling, or platform-religion topics that no sane person wants in the "real" usenet discussions. It is, by definition, a garbage-collection of topics. Here, the advocacy mailing list is meant to be a serious list with a real purpose: figuring out how to make FreeBSD more acceptable to more people, and how to connect with people who would be well-served by running FreeBSD (if they only knew more about it to try it out). So, I think this is a bad name for a serious mailing list, but even after a few weeks of thinking about an alternate name I haven't thought of anything which would be notably better... --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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