From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jan 28 10:37:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF5B15F7D for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:36:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA75156; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:36:31 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:36:31 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Don Wilde Cc: Pat Lynch , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMN kicks Augustin's butt. Message-ID: <20000128183630.A74295@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <3891A457.61BCBEAA@thuntek.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <3891A457.61BCBEAA@thuntek.net>; from Don Wilde on Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 07:14:47AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 07:14:47AM -0700, Don Wilde wrote: > What a mess /. is, though. I stay away from it because of all the crap > you wade through. With my @slashdot.org hat on, any suggestions people have for improving this would be welcome. It's somewhat disheartening to post BSD stories, and get nothing but Natalie Portman comments for hours afterwards. There are a few vocal BSD proponents on Slashdot. Wes pops up occasionally, as do people like Dom Mitchell, and others. We need more. I'd really like to see more people posting solid, technical replies, and not just an endless round "BSD sux" "Does not" "Does too", which it often descends to. :-( N -- If you want to imagine the future, imagine a tennis shoe stamping on a penguin's face forever. --- with apologies to George Orwell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message