From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Oct 25 14:36:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23875 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 14:36:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23869 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 14:36:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from opsys@mail.webspan.net) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with SMTP id RAA06488; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:36:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 17:36:14 -0500 (EST) From: Open Systems Networking X-Sender: opsys@orion.webspan.net To: "David O'Brien" cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's the 3.0 press release? In-Reply-To: <19981025140312.A29819@nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-716402162-909354974=:26960" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --0-716402162-909354974=:26960 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Well ok if you CANT wait 6 days till its daemon news :-) It is not perfect, probably has errors, but the BSD news guys will take care of that. But this is what I sent them. Most of the layout was suggested by brett glass, who had to spell a lot of things out for me because english is not my main language anymore FreeBSD is. I *think* the only thing brett wanted changed that I didnt change was the o bullets section that listed new features. Brett said this should be short sentences and to remove the bullets. But since it was slated for BSD news only, I figured the readers were more intelligent than some PR guy at CNet or PCMAG so I left them in. That needs to be considered if this PR is used as a template in the future. But its a good starting block I think. And hopefully now that we have something to build on, everytime "PR" is mentioned we wont have to hash out what should and should not be in it, just take this and modify it. Jordan gave the OK for it to be in BSD news so i'm assuming that it's ok to post it here. If not im sure I'll here about it. Chris -- "You both seem to be ignoring the fact that the networking market is driven by so-called 'IT professionals' these days, most of whom can't tell the difference between an ARP and a carp." --Wes Peters ===================================| Open Systems FreeBSD Consulting. 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