From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 9 10:48:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (sol.cc.u-szeged.hu [160.114.8.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB3437BE7C for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 10:48:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.cc.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id TAA26573; Tue, 9 May 2000 19:48:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12pE7F-0001TN-00 for ; Tue, 09 May 2000 19:48:17 +0200 Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 19:48:17 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Magazine ads Message-ID: <20000509194816.B3654@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000509075015.A50803@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from howardjp@glue.umd.edu on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:59:19PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:59:19PM -0400, James Howard wrote: > On Tue, 9 May 2000, Josef Grosch wrote: > > > On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 07:00:17PM -0700, Robert A. Bruce wrote: > > > We are thinking of expanding the number of magazines > > > that we advertise FreeBSD in. Right now we are doing > > > SysAdmin, DrDobbs, LinuxJournal, and LinuxMagazine. > > > > > > What other magazines are likely to be read by a lot of > > > prospective FreeBSD users? What tech magazines do you > > > read? > > > > How about Byte, which used to be a good techie magazine but has turned into > > just another shill for microsoft. > > Byte sucks, they don't even do a print version in America anymore :( They do it here, but what does it buy us?:-))) How about some large European mags, like c't or iX from Heinz Heise publishing in Germany ? (http://www.heise.de/) They actually write about Free/OpenBSD every once in a while and the reader base is IMHO not bad an audience for us... just a thought, of course. Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message