From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 7 6:14:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tucows.com (mail.tucows.com [208.229.216.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D51C14F0B for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 06:14:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arthur@tucows.com) Received: from Arthur.Linuxberg (starwars.linuxberg.org [208.229.216.41]) by mail.tucows.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA25364; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:12:18 -0400 Received: from localhost (arthur@localhost) by Arthur.Linuxberg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03990; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:12:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Arthur.Linuxberg: arthur owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:12:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Arthur H. Johnson II" X-Sender: arthur@Arthur.Linuxberg To: "Preston S. Wiley II" Cc: Francisco Reyes , Joseph Scott , Michael Kenneth Henry , "freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: The real way to advocate (Was: Re: Slashdot-like site) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I like FreeBSD advocacy. Its subtle, keeps to the facts, and stays away from "because sucks" arguments. Its one reason I switched to FreeBSD in the first place. Arthur H. Johnson II http://www.linuxberg.com Linuxberg Manager arthur@tucows.com On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Preston S. Wiley II wrote: > > One thing that we need to define whether this site will be > > advocacy/news or just advocacy. > > http://freebsd.tesserae.com is intended to be an advocacy site. For > FreeBSD it seems that alot of advocacy stuff comes from articles and news. > Release announcements, new commercial software, and "FreeBSD is good" > articles seem to make up 95% of advocacy work for FreeBSD. So, on that > note, We decided to put news on the front page of the site. It will give > people an idea what is going on with FreeBSD and allow them to see the > great new things that are happening with FreeBSD. News is advocacy. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Preston Wiley Cadabra, Inc. > Systems Administrator 1820 Gateway Drive, Suite 300 > pwiley@cadabra.com San Mateo, CA 94404 > 650/403-2227 http://www.cadabra.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message