Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 20:13:47 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: dan@freebsddiary.org, "Dan Langille" <dan@freebsddiary.org>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proposal: weekly posting about FreeBSD Diary Message-ID: <00030120173307.00719@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <200003010548.SAA42773@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> References: <200003010548.SAA42773@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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I had no idea that being subscribed to this list was a requirement for supporting FreeBSD. ONe could conceive of the situation where a person helping to develop alternate support may not have the time to plow through 100-200 e-mails a day. Doug, do you think he should be subscribed to ALL of them, or would just this one be sufficient? On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Dan Langille wrote: > On 29 Feb 00, at 21:20, Doug Barton wrote: > > > Dan Langille wrote: > > > > > > On 29 Feb 00, at 20:13, Doug Barton wrote: > > > > > > > Dan Langille wrote: > > > > > > > > > > How would the list react to a weekly posting about The FreeBSD Diary? > > > > > > > > Hmmm.... you already post "You can find that answer at the freebsd > > > > diary" mesages a week, do you think that one more would make a > > > > difference? > > > > > > That's strange. I haven't been subscribed to questions for some > > > months. Perhaps someone has been posting on my behalf. > > > > Ok, I'll rephrase. I see several postings a week on the -questions list > > that refer people to your web pages. In no way do I think this is a bad > > thing. I just don't think that one more will make a difference. > > It's good that other people are referring people to the Diary. I consider > that a compliement. And point taken. The difference between the > existing references and my single post would be that my message > would include which new articles had been added in the past week. I > hope that a separate message, appropriately titled, might prompt people > to read the message. As opposed to deleting a thread because it's > titled "I can't get my cd-rom to work". > > > Given that you're not even subscribed to the list, I would have some > > reservations about an advertisement for your site being posted to the > > list. However I'm sure that I will be in the minority. > > I'ts my turn to rephrase. I am subscribed to the list *now*. I had been > absent for some months because of other commitments. > -- > Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited [I'm looking for more work] > http://www.dvl-software.com/ | http://www.unixathome.org/ > http://www.racingsystem.com/ | http://www.freebsddiary.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Walter Brameld in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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