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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:34:53 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
To:        "D.M.P." <gryph@mindless.com>
Cc:        advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for More Submissions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.991004193344.2094G-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
In-Reply-To: <37F94070.5B8E0561@mindless.com>

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One would think that with the up & coming BSD feature section on Slashdot
that they wouldn't casually toss BSD related submissions aside.


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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
> 



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