From owner-freebsd-www Thu May 7 09:14:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09330 for www-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 09:14:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-www) Received: from newport-1-12.quick.net (josh@newport-1-12.quick.net [207.212.160.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09316 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 09:14:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from josh@newport-1-12.quick.net) Received: (from josh@localhost) by newport-1-12.quick.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18727; Thu, 7 May 1998 09:13:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from josh) Message-ID: <19980507091342.C10110@newport-1-12.quick.net> Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 09:13:42 -0700 From: Josh Gilliam To: Stefan Bethke Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Message boards References: <19980507072808.B10110@newport-1-12.quick.net> <1522306.3103549808@d254.promo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.4 In-Reply-To: <1522306.3103549808@d254.promo.de> X-Editor: nvi 1.79 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386 X-IRC: soil Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Are you sure we want to promote these? From a quick look, the quality seems > to be much worse than even some usenet groups. > > If you think these would be helpful for people unable to subscribe the > mailing lists and the newsgroups: one can read and post news via DejaNews, > and send and receive mail by one of the many free email services. You are probably right. Although, there seems to be some useful content at Yahoo. Maybe promotion will attract more FreeBSD users into the forum and produce better quality. LINUX or Free BSD Linux bkoonce Apr 9 1998 1:31AM EDT Just look at the posts here. FreeBSD is rarely discussed. It also suffers from a distinct lack of documentation. Linux, on the other hand, has a lot of users who are willing to get involved, is liberally supported on the web and in print, and is available in a variety of configurations. -- Josh Gilliam 5333 E Los Arboles Ave 1 714 633 6499 Orange CA 92869-4216 USA