From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 1 02:14:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E2C16A41F for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:14:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F39D43D46 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:13:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iA12CfkL004661; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:12:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4366CF4B.60306@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:13:31 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051026 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <20051031212138.4456283C0D@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> <200510312218.13261.freebsd01@dgmm.net> <20051101011146.GA14135@thought.org> <20051101013050.GA10120@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20051101013050.GA10120@flame.pc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gary Kline , dgmm , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The best scripts ever (trick or treat) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:14:02 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On 2005-10-31 17:11, Gary Kline wrote: > > >>On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:18:12PM +0000, dgmm wrote: >> >> >>>On Monday 31 October 2005 21:21, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: >>> >>> >>>>POST YOUR COOLEST SCRIPTS! <3 (trick or treat) >>>> >>>> >>>Unless it's FreeBSD specific scripts you are talking about would >>>news://comp.unix.shell not be better for this? >>> >>> >> Yeah, but reached netnews may be more trouble for lots of us. >> I say, "Come on down!" >> >> > >Nah! Too much traffic for little gain, I think. > >A web page with shell script collections and a link posted to the >list would be *much* more preferable, if you ask me. A web page >is easier to extend later on, reorganize, categorize, present in >multiple ways, etc. without increasing the traffic of the list >immensely. > Also sounds a tad like forum fodder. bsdforums.org is fairly well trafficked --- I daresay it'd do fairly well there, considering there's a "show us your desktop" thread that gets several posts a week for the past two years or so...... KDK