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To: Rick Siple <RickSiple@mpainc.com>
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Subject: Re: Active Conecpts and LAN Media Corporation 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Nov 1998 11:53:03 EST."
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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 08:56:47 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 	Sorry to seems dense, but I want to make sure I understand.
> There is no one in the FreeBSD project that contacts these companies to
> acquaint them with FreeBSD's advertising channels, so I should not
> attempt to notify anyone in the FreeBSD project of any press release,
> etc. I find relating to FreeBSD?  I suppose if the copmany went to the
> trouble to create a driver or product for FreeBSD they should have done
> some homework on the operating system.

No, I think you may have misunderstood.

People are always free to contact companies and say "hey, did you
realize you can get a free plug on the web site and, if you have
suitable advertising copy, the commercial/announce mailing lists for
FreeBSD?" - I do that all the time.  What we don't do, and all I was
trying to clarify above, is make unsolicited listings of such
companies and write their product/company description ourselves.  That
is what leads to misunderstandings (to say nothing of incorrect
product descriptions) and where we would rather have the company's
participation.

- Jordan