From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Oct 5 12: 8:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from envy.geekhouse.net (envy.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9778B37B503; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jim@localhost) by envy.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e95J8J653771; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:08:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:08:18 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Steve Fagan Cc: Rick Hamell , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) Message-ID: <20001005120817.C43895@envy.geekhouse.net> Reply-To: jim@lust.geekhouse.net 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/1.2.5i 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-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 at 13:57:07 -0500, Steve Fagan wrote: > ----- 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 :-( > > So would it help if we sent mails to them or something along those > lines. Possibly. I'm not sure how much a few emails will accomplish though. They seem pretty set in their decision. If you do really want to see such a book though, you can send feedback to custserdum@idgbooks.com. See http://www.dummies.com/email.html for more contact information. - 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-advocacy" in the body of the message