Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:26:25 -0600 From: Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com> To: Joe Warner <jswarner@uswest.net> Cc: Chris Coleman <chrisc@vmunix.com>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [dn-editors] I have a story.. Message-ID: <39A44F91.7E2E32F8@Silver-Lynx.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008231620230.758-100000@vnode.vmunix.com> <39A4428C.F281CDAB@uswest.net>
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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
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