From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 12: 1:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308D314BFC for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:01:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21491; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:00:49 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:00:48 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD must remail non-commercial at all (Was: Not enoughinformation) In-Reply-To: <3874D7F0.C7D25864@glue.umd.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Walter Brameld wrote: > > > > Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > > Also, I like all those free coasters they send me. > > And here I thought I was the only one that used those things as coasters. I was > going to market the idea, if I only I could find a way to make them absorb > water... > Not half as useful as the endless supply of floppies they used to send. You can never have enough floppies but how many coasters can one person need? Of course they can also be used for purely decorative purposes, sporting events and looking at the sun. > Actually, at this very moment, I'm using a Compuserve coaster. :) > So am I. They survive the stress test very well, only shattering after repeated acts of violently smashing them into a slightly padded surface. They also produce prettier patterns in the microwave and bounce and roll more gracefully when dropped on their edge. Also, unlike modern AOL CDs, they don't look like a box of laundry detergent. Compuserve coasters outperform AOL coasters by an order of magnitude. Maybe I should use the same benchmark on my 2.2.6 CDs from Cheapbytes and see how FreeBSD does in comparison. Pardon the deviation from the topic but until there's a freebsd-coasters list, the vital importance of quality coasters, an essential tool for the geek community, demands that information be free and disseminated as widely as possible (if possible, as widely as AOL's CDs) by any means available. EOM -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message