Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:57:07 -0500 From: "Steve Fagan" <sfagan@pmr.com> To: <jim@lust.geekhouse.net>, "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) Message-ID: <016401c02efe$0f2619e0$1600010a@pmr.com> References: <20001005095708.C3264@envy.geekhouse.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010040924310.52998-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <20001005115947.A43895@envy.geekhouse.net>
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So would it help if we sent mails to them or something along those lines. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Mock" <jim@lust.geekhouse.net> To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 1:59 PM Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) > On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 at 09:25:36 +0000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > Any one know why it's been cancled then? :( This is like the 2nd > > > > or third time this has happened. > > > > > > According to the people at IDG I talked to (I was doing the technical > > > review), it was a matter of deadlines. I've been trying to get the > > > editor working with Annelise to reply to me for a while now without luck > > > (I would love to pick this up). > > > > Cool, cause that was exactly what I was thinking. This is too > > valuable to let it drop. This needs to be done! In my opinion, little > > else will give FreeBSD a better image then a good 'Dummies' book. :) > > I just talked to Greg Croy from IDG -- he was the editor handling > FreeBSD for Dummies. He said that IDG doesn't have any interest in > publishing FreeBSD for Dummies anymore because they don't have enough > confidence the market is large enough to ensure it's success. In other > words, their risk is too great :-( > > - jim > > -- > jim mock <jim@jmock.com> work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org > http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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