From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 23 19:25:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E90637B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:25:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512E143F13 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:25:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org (12-240-204-110.client.attbi.com[12.240.204.110]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <2003012403254000300062tle>; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:25:40 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0O3PdRG037061; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:25:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0O3PcoT037060; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:25:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200301240325.h0O3PcoT037060@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20021120 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Hunter Peress , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BitTorrent Mirror of 5.0 In-Reply-To: <20030124025137.GA61607@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030123195701.GH60077@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030123202001.51397.qmail@web41306.mail.yahoo.com> <20030124025137.GA61607@rot13.obsecurity.org> Comments: In-reply-to Kris Kennaway message dated "Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:51:37 -0800." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1113335330P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:25:38 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_1113335330P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Kris Kennaway wrote: > You omitted step 1, which is needed before you'll get any significant > community buy-in (only the most dedicated people are going to manually > download and build it on their own). Yes. Or bribe someone else to get it to compile/install/whatever and then make a port of it, especially if it (or some dependency) needs a patch to run on FreeBSD. > Also, -chat is not really the > best list for this..for example, it would be on-topic for -stable or > -current and you'd reach your target audience there. I pointed Hunter to current@ and chat@ originally. He did post to current@, and there was some discussion there. I also thought of hackers@ (it's off-topic, but no more so than a bunch of other posts I've seen there). Bruce. --==_Exmh_1113335330P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE+MLIy2MoxcVugUsMRAsnmAKC1dSFHnQ1Ltztcxko6Ctyp0z/DZQCgyjRQ LSzFL12kWu13rhG5Drc6rIY= =N/Dk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1113335330P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message