From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 22 17:59:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id RAA28558 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 17:59:53 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA28551 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 17:59:50 -0700 Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA11425; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 20:51:53 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199508230051.UAA11425@hda.com> Subject: Re: do we need a freebsd-advocacy mailing list?! To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 20:51:52 -0400 (EDT) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508221725.TAA00818@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Aug 22, 95 07:25:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 716 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Gents, ladies, > > I start to get the impression that we need some sort of advocacy list. > -hackers seems to get flooded with all sorts of Linux nitpicking, > marketing stuff and whatnot. > > Speaking strictly for myself, I can _really_ do without this, still > acknowledging the fact that the discussions themselves can be > really useful. > I'll again suggest freebsd-policy. Anything not hacking related can be shunted over there and then the policy wonks can argue what needs to be moved into yet additional mailing lists. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267