From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Aug 31 21:24:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13466 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:24:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13442 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 21:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (wes@zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA20658; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:31:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <35EB776C.2635DA1@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 22:26:20 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francisco Reyes , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for new list References: <199809010240.TAA07008@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 Francisco Reyes wrote: > > How about a new list specially for the press. I think questions is > great for general purpose, but we may get better exposure if we are > able to help reporters/reviewers to install the software with the > least problems possible. > > The way I suggest it would be to have a handfull of handpicked people > have access to the list (i.e. Dough White, Greg Lehey, Jordan....) > and to only allow questions from reviewers/editors/ article writers. > > Thoughts? comments? It'll never fly, because "the press" won't go for it. When they review an OS like FreeBSD, they're also reviewing the support provided via the "standard" support channels, which are the mailing lists in FreeBSD. It's surprisingly egalitarian, given the perks expected by most magazine reviewers, but I assume it has been crammed down their throats by editorial reviews. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message