From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Aug 23 15:25:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.thuntek.net (mail2.thuntek.net [206.206.98.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C22F37B423; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Silver-Lynx.com (abq-058.thuntek.net [207.66.52.58]) by mail2.thuntek.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA97891; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:25:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from Don@Silver-Lynx.com) Message-ID: <39A44F91.7E2E32F8@Silver-Lynx.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:26:25 -0600 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: Don@Silver-Lynx.com Organization: Silver Lynx X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Warner Cc: Chris Coleman , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [dn-editors] I have a story.. References: <39A4428C.F281CDAB@uswest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Warner wrote: > > Joe. Thankyou for your submission. However, it is impolite to submit > an > article to more than one place, without them first declining to > publish > it. > > Chris, > > I wasn't aware that there was some kind of rule or that it would be > considered impolite to submit an article to more than one site. I > worked hard on this article and spent most of a day, trying to write > it. I wrote the article and submitted it to more than one site, > hoping to help others and spread the word about a useful application > that runs on FreeBSD. It's rules/attitudes like this that make it > very discouraging when someone like myself, is just trying to help the > rest of the BSD community. In the future, if I come up with some > information that I think would help others or I have an idea for > another article, I will certainly think hard about sharing it or > writing it at all. Thanks for nothing. > It's a general rule in writing, Joe, it's not something that's new to Chris or DaemonNews or to web publishing. Do that to any commercial or trade publisher and you'll never see print. It's Just The Way It Is. -- Donald Wilde "Linking Minds and Micros" ================= S i l v e r L y n x =================== PMB 117, 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd SE v: 505-771-0709 f: 771-1356 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 web: http://www.Silver-Lynx.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message