From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Sep 18 18:35:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF2415116 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:35:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11SVsm-0000xY-00; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:35:13 -0600 Message-ID: <37E43DCE.77BB949@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:35:10 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Ethan Bakshy , brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, "Neumann, Matthew C" , Chris Coleman , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org, advocacy@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Daemon News Daily Site References: <19990915194543.B87186@enteract.com> <37E3CFF7.8DDA9643@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Ethan Bakshy wrote: > > > > > Well, there are some things I can think of that would be appropriate for a > > > BSD specific news site that wouldn't make it onto Slashdot. For instance, > > > I think it would be cool if development anouncements like > > > feature/code/ports freezes were published there. I just can't see /. > > > posting that sort of thing. > > > > But /. really /should/. They sort of do that stuff for Linux. Why not BSD. > > It begs the question, then: does anyone submit this stuff to them? I used to. I got so little through the "it's not Linux" filter I gave up. I know Rob has said many times he'd like to cover FreeBSD more, but apparently that message hasn't filtered down to the zealots that throw away 90% of the BSD-related postings. On a separate note, I noticed a couple of late panic reactions to the recent FreeBSD Security Advisory on FTP servers. Should we be gating all *BSD Security Advisories and official announcements to daily? It strikes me as a good way to help get the news out. Perhaps we could get a volunteer from each project, or just get daily added to the correct mailing lists. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message