From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Sep 17 13:53:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 238981517A; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:53:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.10]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAB56AD; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 22:53:21 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA47419; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 22:51:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 22:51:36 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Bob Van Valzah Cc: steve@FreeBSD.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advocacy/13790: Kudos for Recent Press Message-ID: <19990917225136.A47384@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <19990917150738.AB62414D7D@hub.freebsd.org> <19990917194021.D45243@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <37E29581.DAEEEF6A@WhiteBarn.Com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <37E29581.DAEEEF6A@WhiteBarn.Com> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Bob Van Valzah (Bob@whitebarn.com) [990917 22:34]: >Jeroen & Steve, I'm with you. I've been managing software development >projects for 15 years so I understand the importance of keeping a PR system >clean. Nobody wants the metrics mucked up. >I searched hoping to find a list of mail aliases or something. Most of the >hits that came back were RQN issues. No E-Mail alias were listed anywhere >in the top ten hits. Send-pr.html was the number 3 hit. It seemed hard to >imagine how "advocacy" would be a problem category taken as seriously as >say "kern," so I "abused" the PR system after 5 minutes of searching in >vain. The advocacy list is findable on the mailinglist pages though. >I apologize. That's quite alright. It's just that in the past the PR system has been kludged by things which should've been sent to -questions instead of clutter up the PR system. > 4. I can't be the only guy to've ever introduced a "noise" message into > the PR system. Is there a systemic problem that makes it difficult to > close a "noise" message and get on with it? It's not difficult, provided you have an account to do so. I tend to work in conjunction with Sheldon and Steve. This might mean to people like me who like to keep the machine steaming and rolling along to mayhaps reword things on appropriate pages/manuals and submit patches against that... Anyways, no harm done and we thank you for kind words, albeit not in the preferred way =) -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Things do not change, we change. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message