From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Oct 5 12: 8:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D8E537B503; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA79484; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 15:08:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 15:08:12 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Steve Fagan Cc: jim@lust.geekhouse.net, Rick Hamell , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) Message-ID: <20001005150812.B79428@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20001005095708.C3264@envy.geekhouse.net> <20001005115947.A43895@envy.geekhouse.net> <016401c02efe$0f2619e0$1600010a@pmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <016401c02efe$0f2619e0$1600010a@pmr.com>; from sfagan@pmr.com on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:57:07PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:57:07PM -0500, Steve Fagan wrote: > So would it help if we sent mails to them or something along those lines. The open source camps are well known for narrow, but deep, advocacy. I'd recommend putting your efforts towards other publishers. It would help, say, Addison-Wesley to make the plunge if you wrote them asking for a FreeBSD book. IDG has been wavering for a while, sadly. :( -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message