From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 22 17:16:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98121501C; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 17:16:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA10973; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:16:04 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991122181212.046b6640@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:15:59 -0700 To: Alfred Perlstein From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: False Alarm: Xi Graphics representative was mistaken! Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.0.58.19991122114841.042cd950@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:24 PM 11/22/1999 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >Brett, as a member of the press you ought to be a bit more sensitive >about your source verification. ;-) Well, I received the word directly from a bona fide representative of the company. That's normally a pretty reliable source! I did not know that this person was mistaken, and posted a correction as soon as I *did* know. What else could I do? I was shocked, because I was about to order a few copies of their X server for some machines here. >You also should note that XiG sales people really need to be >clued in a bit more, the one I talked to said that there was >"no way" they'd be supporting FreeBSD 3.x. I will now know better. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message