From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri May 15 18:47:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14929 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 15 May 1998 18:47:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14917 for ; Fri, 15 May 1998 18:47:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA06923; Sat, 16 May 1998 11:17:12 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980516111711.Y1953@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 11:17:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On the subject of O'Reilly FreeBSD books... References: <199805151703.KAA05044@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jason C. Wells on Fri, May 15, 1998 at 04:59:07PM +0000 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-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 May 1998 at 16:59:07 +0000, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/freeBSD.html > > I noticed that the article _only_ said "we're thinking" on doing a FreeBSD > book. > > So I clicked the link and told Tim I would buy a copy if he did publish > "Running FreeBSD." I think this might be good advocacy! How does this sound? On Mon, 13 April 1998 at 14:11:50 -0400, Andy Oram wrote: > I think you campaign of many years has paid off. Thanks to testimonials > about FreeBSD from you and people working for us (as well as plenty of > people on the Net) Tim and Frank now want to print an updated version of > your book. > > I hope you're not like the legendary genie who got so angry being trapped > in a bottle for generations that he turned against those who finally free > him. Want to work together? We're working together :-) It's beginning to look like a separate book, however. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message