From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 18:12:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9197A16A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:12:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.tyndale.com (mail1.tyndale.com [68.74.233.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08A9A43D2D for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:12:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from harrison@tbc.net) Received: from mailnode1.tyndale.com (unverified) by mail1.tyndale.com for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:12:11 -0600 Received: from [10.192.106.39] ([10.192.106.39]) by mailnode1.tyndale.com; Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:11:59 -0600 Message-ID: <4227541E.8060006@tbc.net> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 12:14:54 -0600 From: Shawn Harrison User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: <200503031519.j23FJoIY042729@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: <200503031519.j23FJoIY042729@fire.jhs.private> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Logo idea and FreeBSD.com concept X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:12:06 -0000 Julian H. Stacey wrote [03/03/05 9:19 AM]: > Advocacy@ should contain only what Helps BSD Advocacy, eg: > "Who will help man a BSD stand in _Your_City_ in 2 weeks ?" > "Who will help man a BSD install event in _Your_City_ in 2 weeks ?" > "Who will co-author a BSD book ?" > "Here's a _maintained_ URL, to print/forward to acquaintances who > ask the eternal question: "Why use BSD rather than Linux ?"" > > No defocused chat on advocacy@ please. _Please_ chat on chat@ !! Would you please clarify what you mean by "defocused chat"? Does discussion of the best ways to go about advocating FreeBSD count as "chat" in your mind? Most of what has been discussed recently (apart from the religious flamewar, et al.) _has_ been related to the topic of "FreeBSD advocacy". Frankly, I don't see much going on here -- in the past few days, especially -- that violates the charter of the list: FreeBSD evangelism Furthering the Use of FreeBSD Share ideas and plan to increase the number of companies and individuals using FreeBSD It seems that you are objecting to the list being used for discussion at all, if your allowed usage list is any indication. But this is a different question entirely from whether posts have been on or off topic. There's nothing wrong with on-topic discussion, even if it does mean a higher flow of mail than what this list has seen in the past. In fact, the topics in the list chart are inherently verbose. How do you "share ideas and plan X" without a lot of mails going back and forth? Would you please clarify what off-topic conversation has been taking place? Let's confine the scope to the past two weeks, just for the sake of discussion. Shawn Harrison