From owner-freebsd-ports Sun May 30 20:51:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9760915123 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 20:51:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA77945; Sun, 30 May 1999 23:51:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 23:51:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: matt Cc: FreeBSD-PORTS Subject: Re: WmInet and asmon In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 30 May 1999, matt wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > > : On Sun, 30 May 1999, matt wrote: > > [...] > > : Geeze. They're great, but you won't spend one word on what they are. > : Is it any wonder that no one could give a damn about them, when they > : can't tell if they're an automated crossword puzzle or a new screen > : saver? > > WmInet is a Dock Application for Windowmaker (and afterstep etc) It shows > status such as users, ftp, nfs, httpd, etc.. asmon is like wmmon which > you DO have a port for, however, asmon is much better.. There, does that > explain better? > > : No wonder they'll get no help. You need some sales training. Sell us > : on these things! > > I wasn't aware I had to "sell" you on making FreeBSD a more versatile OS. How do we tell that those two apps do that? Do you think that anyone is willing to work on anything at all? No one's getting paid, so they work on what's "interesting". If there's no description, then whatever you're after getting done isn't very likely to be "interesting". It might well have been a method for automated spamming. Your description is what I was after ... it's just a little depressing, because a large number of requests look like yours, so people aren't figuring out that keeping things a secret isn't the very best way to go. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message