From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 29 21:48:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (chilled.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D8237BFEC for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:48:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@freebsddiary.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA42773; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:48:34 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <200003010548.SAA42773@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Doug Barton Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:48:32 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: proposal: weekly posting about FreeBSD Diary Reply-To: dan@freebsddiary.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <38BCA89D.A5C354CF@gorean.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29 Feb 00, at 21:20, Doug Barton wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > > > > On 29 Feb 00, at 20:13, Doug Barton wrote: > > > > > Dan Langille wrote: > > > > > > > > How would the list react to a weekly posting about The FreeBSD Diary? > > > > > > Hmmm.... you already post "You can find that answer at the freebsd > > > diary" mesages a week, do you think that one more would make a > > > difference? > > > > That's strange. I haven't been subscribed to questions for some > > months. Perhaps someone has been posting on my behalf. > > Ok, I'll rephrase. I see several postings a week on the -questions list > that refer people to your web pages. In no way do I think this is a bad > thing. I just don't think that one more will make a difference. It's good that other people are referring people to the Diary. I consider that a compliement. And point taken. The difference between the existing references and my single post would be that my message would include which new articles had been added in the past week. I hope that a separate message, appropriately titled, might prompt people to read the message. As opposed to deleting a thread because it's titled "I can't get my cd-rom to work". > Given that you're not even subscribed to the list, I would have some > reservations about an advertisement for your site being posted to the > list. However I'm sure that I will be in the minority. I'ts my turn to rephrase. I am subscribed to the list *now*. I had been absent for some months because of other commitments. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited [I'm looking for more work] http://www.dvl-software.com/ | http://www.unixathome.org/ http://www.racingsystem.com/ | http://www.freebsddiary.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message