From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 5 21:29:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA28361 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 21:29:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA28339; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 21:29:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11753; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:29:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <36199C97.2F2B5E96@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 22:29:11 -0600 From: Wes Peters Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn CC: Don Wilde , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nominate your favorite enemy corporation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 8:23 AM +0000 10/5/98, Don Wilde wrote: > >> http://webreview.com/wr/pub/98/10/02/frames/index.html#top > > > > ... is the URL for Michael Swaine's Inertia Awards contest. I've > > nominated a certain company from the Northwest, but I'm sure > > multiple nominations won't hurt... ;D > > My understanding is that this mailing list is for us to discuss > how to advocate FreeBSD to new customers, and not a list to waste > time with name-calling of the competition. Pissing on microsoft > might be fun, but it doesn't convince anyone to "buy into" freebsd. > > Now, I am sincere in saying it might very well be fun to do, I'm > just saying it will not help to advocate freebsd. Which means the original message should have appeared on freebsd-chat, as this and subsequent followups will. Please note that "piss on Microsoft" threads are OPENLY WELCOMED on freebsd-chat. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message