From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 18 18:38: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A6B914E08 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:37:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.58] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ea056788 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 21:34:29 -0500 Message-ID: <38852373.9E38DACA@twave.net> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 21:37:39 -0500 From: Walter Brameld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Taylor Cc: "LinuxExpo.Net Editor" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Exhibitor preview of Linux World References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To Kathy, Dr. Taylor and the public forum where I displayed my thoughtlessness, I would like to keep this from snowballing any further than it has. I certainly do not want to be responsible for any rift between a Linux organization and FreeBSD. I in no way represent any part of the FreeBSD project, and any opinion I gave was strictly my own, inappropriate as it was. You can rest assured, if there is a dullard in this group it is the one posting this message. Once again, my apologies. I can't tell you how sorry I am for upsetting you. Please do not hold my idiocy against FreeBSD. Brett Taylor wrote: > > Hi Kathy, > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, LinuxExpo.Net Editor wrote: > > > I guess I'll take a print out of your note and show it to the folks at > > the booth and explain it's all we got as a response to an offer to > > promote your group. > > The problem is you did not send the email to the developers of FreeBSD, > nor Walnut Creek, the primary distributor, but to a mailing list designed > to answer users' questions about FreeBSD. This list is populated by a > large number of new users and a few experienced users to help the new > people, but is not (primarily) populated by the core group of developers > due to the low signal to noise ratio. > > Your email would have been better sent to freebsd-core or at least > freebsd-advocacy. The -core address would have gotten you the core group > of developers. At this point, I would recommend you contact Jordan > Hubbard directly at jkh@freebsd.org. > > I'm sorry this occurred - as with anything, you don't always get > represented well by users. This user is not officially associated with > the FreeBSD core team and I would hope that you don't hold it against us > (not that I'm any more officially associated than he was - I am however > associated w/ Daemon News, a BSD ezine and have contributed work to the > FreeBSD project). > > Brett > ***************************************************** > Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * > Dept of Chem and Physics * > Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * > Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * > Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * > ***************************************************** > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Walter in·tel·lec·tu·al (ntl-kch-l) n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message