From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jan 27 11: 5:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B8037B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:05:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A9043F43 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:05:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18dEZo-0002yS-00; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:05:48 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18dEZZ-0002yL-00; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:05:35 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18dEZU-000Fim-00; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:05:28 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18dEZT-0004ov-00; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:05:27 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Willie Viljoen To: "Anthony C. Chavez" Subject: Re: Some corrections about freebsdnews.org Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:05:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200301272043.20423.will@unfoldings.net> <20030127185744.GD62737@anthonychavez.org> In-Reply-To: <20030127185744.GD62737@anthonychavez.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301272105.27758.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18dEZZ-0002yL-00*iRpUiYv7N/g* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 27 January 2003 20:57, Anthony C. Chavez wrote: > This has turned into a somewhat unfortunate mess. I wish I would have > had time to respond to this over the weekend. Well, nobody could really e-mail very well this weekend, we're still deal= ing=20 with the aftermath of that slapper-worm rubbish here, mail queues filled = to=20 capacity :) > > Your description of freebsdnews sounds ~exactly~ like Daemon News, > except that it sounds like you're going to focus on FreeBSD rather than > the BSDs as a whole. Well, there's no reason why we can't colaborate, ie, some portions of=20 freebsdnews.org just redirects people to the appropriate part of DN, and = the=20 rest does things like the freebsd-specific factoid things, etc. I've bought it anyway, and the 12 Euros really isn't gonna hurt that badl= y, so=20 we can think of something to do with it :-) > > Daemon News (well, actually, it's just me and maybe a couple of others) > has been interested in re-vamping the advocacy portal for a few months > now. http://advocacy.daemonnews.org/ has been around for quite some > time now, but it's suffered from severe neglect, like most others. > > Josef El-Rayes and Peter Kieser have both expressed a fairly high degre= e > of enthusiasm for hosting the advocacy site on advocacy.daemonnews.org. > I have yet to hear back from you or Stacy Olivas yet. > > I don't mean to deter you from starting freebsdnews, but IMO, DN is a > much more appropriate place to host an advocacy site. > > By all means, if you want to continue with your site, please do! > However, we can save you the cost of a domain for one thing, and for > another, DN's ~purpose~ is to represent the BSDs as a whole, rather tha= n > just one flavor. > > Please let me know what you decide to do. Thanks! --=20 Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message