From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Oct 4 17:35:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B524215379 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:35:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA27756; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:34:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:34:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: "D.M.P." Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for More Submissions In-Reply-To: <37F94070.5B8E0561@mindless.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One would think that with the up & coming BSD feature section on Slashdot that they wouldn't casually toss BSD related submissions aside. -=========================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet, Regional Internet Services System Administrator 7 Area Codes in Chicagoland and NW Indiana jer@jorsm.com 100Mbps+ Connectivity, 56K-DS3, V.90, ISDN support@jorsm.com Quality Service, Affordable Prices http://www.jorsm.com Serving Gov't, Business, Individuals Since 1995 -=========================================================================- On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, D.M.P. wrote: > Jeremy Shaffner wrote: > > > > Whenever there is a Linux conference or expo, there's at least one story > > posted on Slashdot every day. There has only been one story on FreeBSDCon > > (last month). > > > > On Friday I sent in a submission with links to the Program Overview and > > Event Schedule (recently updated last week.) They haven't yet posted it. > > > > If enough of us submitting it, maybe they won't look/toss it over. > > Myself and at least six other people I know have submitted the > FreeBSDCon program for posting on /. and all of us were rejected. As > a matter of fact, the only things I have ever had posted were either > pro-Linux or unrelated to computer software. > > I've since drawn the conclusion that the people running Slashdot have > lost any objectivity they may have had. > > -- > "Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Truth > and faithfulness are the most sacred excellences and endowments of > the human mind." -- Cicero > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message