Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:12:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Arthur H. Johnson II" <arthur@tucows.com> To: "Preston S. Wiley II" <pwiley@freebsd.tesserae.com> Cc: Francisco Reyes <freyes@inch.com>, Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu>, Michael Kenneth Henry <mhenry@black.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au>, "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: The real way to advocate (Was: Re: Slashdot-like site) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909070910380.299-100000@Arthur.Linuxberg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909061443150.88930-100000@freebsd.tesserae.com>
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I like FreeBSD advocacy. Its subtle, keeps to the facts, and stays away from "because <insert os> sucks" arguments. Its one reason I switched to FreeBSD in the first place. Arthur H. Johnson II http://www.linuxberg.com Linuxberg Manager arthur@tucows.com On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Preston S. Wiley II wrote: > > One thing that we need to define whether this site will be > > advocacy/news or just advocacy. > > http://freebsd.tesserae.com is intended to be an advocacy site. For > FreeBSD it seems that alot of advocacy stuff comes from articles and news. > Release announcements, new commercial software, and "FreeBSD is good" > articles seem to make up 95% of advocacy work for FreeBSD. So, on that > note, We decided to put news on the front page of the site. It will give > people an idea what is going on with FreeBSD and allow them to see the > great new things that are happening with FreeBSD. News is advocacy. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Preston Wiley Cadabra, Inc. > Systems Administrator 1820 Gateway Drive, Suite 300 > pwiley@cadabra.com San Mateo, CA 94404 > 650/403-2227 http://www.cadabra.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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