From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 7 03:04:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA01308 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 03:04:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA01301; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 03:04:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA13932; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:03:32 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id MAA21163; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 12:03:31 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980707120330.22921@follo.net> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 12:03:30 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Chris Coleman , Donald Burr Cc: freebsd-advocacy@colossus.dyn.ml.org, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Public apology for my recent posting References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris Coleman on Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 10:50:07AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 10:50:07AM -0700, Chris Coleman wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Donald Burr wrote: > > > This is a public apology regarding my recent posting to these lists. > > Several people have made me aware that these people had spammed this > > message to all e-mail addresses @freebsd.org. I was not aware of this. > > Really? Your posting was the first I had seen of Coyotepoint. And I am > subscribed to several lists, Maybe I just missed it. > > Maybe I am missing your point, but are we boycotting them because they > spammed the lists? Doesn't seem right if that is the case. Please > elaborate a little, cause I want to put this in the next issue of the RQN. They spammed all the accounts on freebsd.org. Not the mailing lists, just the personal accounts. I originally thought I'd gotten it because they used some of my code... Anyway, I don't think we should boycott them, but should just politely inform them that this is not acceptable. I (trusting person as I am) don't think they meant harm with it - they asked for feedback on their announcement, attempting to reach the group that would be likely to have license disagreements etc (given that their high-end product is based on FreeBSD). None of us would have reacted negatively if they had sent the message to committers@freebsd.org (which would reach most of the same people) with the same 'does this announcement look OK to you' question - I don't think we should react too harshly that they made the possibly honest mistake of sending it to each address instead. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message