From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jan 10 01:59:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA26271 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:59:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA26266 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:59:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA50756; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:59:09 -0800 (PST) To: -kevin- cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of the union, 1999. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:32:42 PST." <3.0.5.32.19990110013242.0094db10@mail.frmt1.sfba.home.com> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 01:59:08 -0800 Message-ID: <50752.915962348@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I know this may sound trite but any time I introduce someone to FreeBSD > they inevitably ask, "What's the deal with the demon?" > So my suggestion is that we change our mascot to something more benign. Not gonna happen. For every one person you could ever possibly find who thought the "demon" was negative advertising, I could find you ten who thought he was just terrific. Go to Japan, you'll find something approaching a small cult for the little guy - he's wildly popular there. Not everyone has such a limited viewing angle on our little icon, OK? :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message