From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Sep 13 17: 1:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B867437B424 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:01:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000914000034.CXLR8573.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:00:34 -0700 Message-ID: <39BFB2F3.4A2E4698@home.com> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:01:39 +0000 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 'Michael Lucas' Cc: "Jake Ludington (E-mail)" , "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: BSD Magazine References: <20000913111032.A70177@blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I still prefer reading good old fashioned hardcopy. I retain more of what I read, and more importantly, I can relax while reading it. After a day of computing at the office, this just isn't possible at home at night in front of a computer. Thats why I have stacks and stacks of howto's and man's on my shelves. If there was an on-line magazine I would print it out anyway. Rob. 'Michael Lucas' wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:06:47AM -0500, Ludington, Jacob wrote: > > Why is everyone concerned with the traditional publishing model? > > We already have a variety of web-based and email-based newsletters and > publications. They're excellent at preaching to the converted. > > Sadly, paper publishing has a legitimacy in many eyes that the Web > doesn't have, yet. This will hopefully change, but it's not quite > there yet. > > It's roughly analogous to the whole e-books thing; if they're so > great, why aren't decision-makers reading them on the bus? > > -- > Michael Lucas > mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org > http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ > Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message