From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 11 22:54:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23001 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 22:54:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [129.72.251.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA22914 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 22:54:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24314; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 23:54:09 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199804120554.XAA24314@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 23:54:09 -0600 To: "Jason C. Wells" , The Classiest Man Alive From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" (moved to chat) Cc: Chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:36 PM 4/11/98 -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: >Yes. It is called the FreeBSD newsletter. It is online one the website. >You can view it with the linux version of acrobat. Two problems: 1. There's only one issue, and it's stale. 2. It's in a proprietary format that requires many readers to download a plug-in. (Others, such as users as some of the other *BSD's, can't even GET a plug-in and so can't read it.) There's no excuse for this in a situation where we want to support non-proprietary standards and easy migration between platforms. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message