From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Oct 22 17:28:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28233 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:28:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27956 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:25:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA196162 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 20:25:19 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@pop1.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981022175807.066828a0@mail.lariat.org> References: <4.1.19981022161928.06751be0@mail.lariat.org> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 20:29:26 -0400 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Where's the 3.0 press release? Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 6:01 PM -0600 10/22/98, Brett Glass wrote: > Press releases need to be sent out in advance of availability of > a product, since they can easily take a week to two weeks to > translate into press coverage. As any experienced PR person > knows, a press release saying "this has already shipped" takes > a back seat to announcements that come ahead of the ship date. Oh, okay, that makes sense. Brett wrote in reply to Garance A Drosihn, who said: >> I don't think the CD-ROM's are pressed yet, which is to say, >> people can't "pick up a copy at their favorite store". It >> would be good to have a press release once people can order >> it from Walnut Creek. This paragraph didn't come out quite the way I meant it to. I *meant* to say something more gung-ho in agreement, such as: I *do* think that it's very important to get a press release out, and as soon as appropriate. (and I'll leave the question of what "appropriate" is to people who know PR more than I do... :-) --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message