Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 00:23:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Stuart Krivis <stuart@apk.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, phil grainger <freebsd@pronet.net.au>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: copyright Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980613001705.4494B-100000@junior.apk.net> In-Reply-To: <v0401170ab1a72a84a92b@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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. There are, very rarely, some good threads in the .advocacy groups. Very rarely. :-) > 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... FreeBSD boosters is closer to what you mean, given that advocacy has a bad connotation these days. ClubFreeBSD? freebsd-boosters? -- Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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