Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 11:55:04 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net> To: "Advocacy List" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org>, "FreebSD ISP list" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>, "FreeBSd Chat list" <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: New Egroups list. Corporate BSD Message-ID: <200007021553.LAA35138@vulcan.addy.com>
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There is a new list dedicated to BSD in your organization. This group is intended to be part advocacy, part BSD and part third party systems. Basically anything which will help you get BSD in use or to keep it running in your organization. How does this group differs from: ** Questions We are presenting this group as NOT for absolute beginners and we will suggest to them to seek out the appropiate list. In particular if the question has no relation to BSD use in an organization. ** Advocacy This list will focus on advocacy in a more narrow scope such as strategies to present BSD to your manager or the organization. ** ISP Although ISPs are organizations, their needs are different. For example an ISP may dictate through a contract with the user their rights. On an organization there may exist rules and regulations and the BSD admin would have to be bound to those. i.e. email retention and access policies. An organization may have a policy which dictates that all emails are kept in archive and that they may be randomly checked or scanned for keywords. It is unlikely that an ISP would want to or ask of their user's permission to keep indefinitely and spot check their email. That of course is just an example, but there are many other areas that differ. Some questions that may be raised by this announcement and their answer: -- Why isn't this list hosted by one of the BSD mailing list. I originally thought of this list as a FreeBSD list and asked the List master (jmb) about it. His answer was that he would prefer that we start it and that if it is truly active that he would host it with the FreeBSD lists. I thought that this makes sense. Specially given his feedback that several times people have asked for lists and they have been dead shortly after their creation. --Why is subscription moderated So we can control spammers. If someone spams the list we can ban them. --How do I join? http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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