From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Feb 8 10:20:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09CA37B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:20:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from digiflux.org (43.Red-80-59-151.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.59.151.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE8A43FA3 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:20:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olivas@digiflux.org) Received: from sentinel (sniffy [10.0.0.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by digiflux.org (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h18IKZQw037877; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:20:36 +0100 (CET) From: "Stacy Olivas" To: "'Gary W. Swearingen'" , Subject: RE: PR vs. PA, Public Relations vs. Public Affairs? Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:20:29 +0100 Message-ID: <003601c2cf9e$c2dd7170$0502000a@sentinel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <4uy94ue8el.94u_-_@localhost.localdomain> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've noticed some problems with the use of "Public Relations" because > "PR" conflicts with FreeBSD's Problem Report "PR" which has caused the > creation of the "PubRel" eye-sore. > > You-all might consider using "Public Affairs", like I noticed > NASA using > last weekend. "PA" seems like an OK initialism (except maybe for > children in Pennsylvania :). > > Or maybe just "publicity" as in "The [FreeBSD] Publicity Project" or > "bsdpublicity.org". > > Just some ideas, in case it isn't too late to avoid bad "PubRel". :-) > Awww, gee.. You're no fun.. After all, isn't the first thing that public relations types are supposed to do is coin new words that make no sense ;) -Stacy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message