From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 27 15:20:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945C615448 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:20:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10068; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:20:12 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd010023; Tue Apr 27 15:20:08 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA11836; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:20:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199904272220.PAA11836@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD offerings by Gateway 2000 To: seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org (Seth) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:20:01 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, paul@originative.co.uk, dhagan@cs.vt.edu, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Seth" at Apr 27, 99 09:34:10 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > OK, I don't think we need to beat people up for a simple, innocent mistake > that was made during an advocacy effort. This tends to discourage the > person being criticized, and doesn't help the situation in any case. The > fact of the matter is, someone took the time to try to help the cause in > which we're all interested. Please note I said "problems", not "screwups". I appreciate advocacy as much as anyone. My posting was intended more as a "minefield ahead" signpost for anyone who might have wanted to take the original poster to task as a reposnse to their posting. > Might I suggest that those of you who have experience and strong opinions > about how advocacy efforts should be conducted (at least initially) put > together some sort of FAQ or list of steps to take with DOs and DONTs? This would be a good idea; I think Don Wilde would be the best source for an "official" project document, and that we'd all be happy to offer input, and submit to the editor's knife... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message