From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 20 13:55:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C5E1504B for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:55:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA09852; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 08:24:46 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA89899; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 08:24:45 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990321082445.Y429@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 08:24:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on userfriendly.org References: <19990320140238.A14865@futuresouth.com>; <19990321080855.W429@lemis.com> <19990320214418.BGXJ4977319.mta2-rme@wocker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990320214418.BGXJ4977319.mta2-rme@wocker>; from Dan Langille on Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 09:43:36AM +1200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 21 March 1999 at 9:43:36 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > On 21 Mar 99, at 8:08, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Saturday, 20 March 1999 at 14:02:38 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 12:12:55AM +1300, a little birdie told me >>> that Dan Langille remarked >>>> http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/99mar/19990320.html >>> >>> Guess our letter writing campaign worked :) >>> >>> Don't TELL me I was the only one whose first thought on seeing the 'dist >>> wars' was 'Hey, they'll agree on FreeBSD', and mailed the comment in! >> >> Right, I did too :-) > > Well, I never considered it actually. I previously felt that user > friendly, like slashdot, was a linux advocate. I think that's a danger for many people. They seem to be solidly in the ISP arena, which suggests that they're anti-Microsoft, but the fact they didn't mention FreeBSD previously just suggests that they didn't think about it. So are we all individually going to send them a big thank you? We don't want this to be the last mention of FreeBSD. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message