From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 20 3:41:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (mail.palmerharvey.co.uk [62.172.109.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A85714DCB; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 03:41:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) Received: from ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk (unverified) by mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.0.1) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:40:34 +0100 Received: from voodoo.pandhm.co.uk (VOODOO [10.100.35.12]) by ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id RH63G3S3; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:40:19 +0100 Received: from dom by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 11Hm6O-000DXw-00; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:40:52 +0100 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:40:52 +0100 To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Dominic Mitchell , Nik Clayton , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rebranding FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990820114052.A52061@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> References: <19990819121942.A13140@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990820022202.A73354@bitbox.follo.net> <19990820091318.B48102@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> <19990820123515.C73354@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990820123515.C73354@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:35:15PM +0200 From: Dominic Mitchell Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:35:15PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 09:13:19AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 02:22:02AM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > I think this would be a good idea. However, there is only one way I > > > think it might acutally work in practice: > > > > > > (1) The core team, in private, decide on a new name. This can be done > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > through any means - I believe personal combat is the most viable > > > one, but e-mail might be easier to arrange. > > > > If you want to sell to the Youth market, I would suggest FurBSD. We may > > well need to vamp our IR drivers and include a speech synthesis module > > to pull this one off. > > > > A brightly coloured box and a "limiting" campaign would also work > > wonders. > > Thanks for proving my point. :) Hey! I consist of a core team of me, for me, to determine my actions. So there! ;-P -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "Finally, when replying to messages only quote the parts of the message your will be discussing or that are relevant. Quoting whole messages and adding two lines at the top is not good etiquette." -- Elias Levy ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message