Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:37:49 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: freebsd-vendors@freebsd.org Cc: postmaster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailing list freebsd-vendors@freebsd.org is being retired Message-ID: <201011030037.oA30bnaf064578@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:06:15 MST." <20101101140615.GA9474@albert.catwhisker.org>
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David Wolfskill wrote: > The mailing list freebsd-vendors@freebsd.org is being retired for > lack of activity. > > If no valid reasons for retaining the list are expressed to > <postmaster@freebsd.org> by 09 Nov 2010, the list is subject to > deactivation at any point on or after 10 Nov 2010. > > Once that happens, new messages for the list will not be accepted. > > Archives of the list will remain available, though folks may need > to be a bit creative in navigating some of the archives maintained > by the FreeBSD project to get to no-longer-current lists. (The > easiest way is probably to access archives by date from > <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/>.) > > If you have any concerns about this, please express them as clearly > as possible to <postmaster@freebsd.org> as soon as possible. Please > note that Reply-To has been set on this message for your convenience. > > Peace, > david (current hat: postmaster@freebsd.org) > -- > David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Hi David & all, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-vendors/ Last real post: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-vendors/2007-August/date.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-vendors/2007-August/000029.html that better belonged on another list, & since then spam. Rather than/ before zapping it, should we first consider broadening current definition ? http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-vendors Coordination between the release engineers and vendors developing FreeBSD-based products. Maybe one might boil down & add some ideas from some of this: While a normal tech. discussion list is terminated if not busy; & an announce list is low traffic; perhaps in its nature vendors@ should expect to be very low traffic, yet still be retained ? Both for eg major/minor lib versus kernel & release issues, but also as a list of quiet people who have in the past mastered CDs &/or DVDs &/or emebdded/ bundled on to hardware or systems &/or may in future, & who have already &/or stand ready to consider infrequent/ obscure often more business/ licensing/ bundling type questions etc, of less interest or business experience to mainstream FreeBSD people ? ( Though, long `bike shed' discussions about licensing can periodically occure on practically any open source list, & while many have views, & many write, not all views are equally interesting, & some business oriented enquirers may prefer fewer responses from others who are more likely business oriented ) vendors@ is perhaps an asset when switching into suit mode to present BSD to businesses ? vendors@ is referenced on both FreeBSD.org pages & elsewhere, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=vendors%40freebsd&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 spam formats. Avoid top posting, it cripples itemised cumulative responses.
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