From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Oct 5 12: 1:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pmr.com (pmr.com [216.30.79.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05FA937B503; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:01:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fagan (fagan.pmr.com [10.1.0.22]) by pmr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA45887; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 14:01:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sfagan@pmr.com) Message-ID: <016401c02efe$0f2619e0$1600010a@pmr.com> From: "Steve Fagan" To: , "Rick Hamell" Cc: , References: <20001005095708.C3264@envy.geekhouse.net> <20001005115947.A43895@envy.geekhouse.net> Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 13:57:07 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org So would it help if we sent mails to them or something along those lines. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Mock" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: ; 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 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-newbies" in the body of the message