From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 18 21:21:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00448 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 21:21:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA00421 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 21:20:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nordwick@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: (qmail 2496 invoked from network); 19 May 1998 04:14:27 -0000 Received: from ip84.san-francisco23.ca.pub-ip.psi.net (HELO scam.xcf.berkeley.edu) (38.28.61.84) by scam.xcf.berkeley.edu with SMTP; 19 May 1998 04:14:27 -0000 Message-ID: <35610646.7A8B5979@scam.xcf.berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 21:10:46 -0700 From: Jason Nordwick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Why slashdot does not post BSD articles. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Overall positive, but I think slightly misguided. His comments about not getting articles is bogus, I send them all the time. And if you have seen slashdot, alot of irrelevant crap is posted there all the time, so I dont buy that he only posts a select few... my guess is that he himself is just not interested, which is cool, but I wish he would just say that... People aren't going to get on his case for that (at least I hope not). Taken from Slashdot.org: Probably because since 50% of the readers use Linux, only .01% of the submissions involve FreeBSD. I occasionally post other stuff, but if people don't send it, I don't post it. And even so, I still pick a dozen a day, and if it isn't interesting I won't post it (no matter what OS) and let's face it- more happens in a week in the Linux world than happens in the 'other free os world' in a week- that's not a comment about the quality of any of the other systems, but rather a comment about the amazing growth that the Linux world has experienced in the last ye Jay -- 4.4 > 95 http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message