From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 23:58:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553A416A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:58:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1920B43D2D for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 23:58:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0204DF2162 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:58:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailtest.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16366-01-31 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:58:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from s9.sbo (s9.sbo [192.168.0.9]) by mailtest.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59344F1FDF for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:58:16 -0800 (PST) From: Freddie Cash Organization: School District 73 - Kamloops, BC To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:58:14 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <42094BCD.8060109@veldy.net> In-Reply-To: <42094BCD.8060109@veldy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502091558.15432.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at sd73.bc.ca Subject: Re: Save the Demon! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:58:19 -0000 On February 8, 2005 03:31 pm, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Can this be true? Are they really looking to kill the FreeBSD demon? > This borders on sacrilege. > http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/09/1955251&from=rss Read the advocacy archives for posts from Robert Watson and Anthony Atkielsky. These (along with a bunch of other well-written posts) will clear things up very quickly. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-adcocacy/2005-February/ The main points to remember: a mascot and a logo are not the same thing, and the logo will be used IN ADDITION TO the mascot. And, *this contest is not even live yet*. Check the text on http://logo-contest.freebsd.org -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca