Larry,
On 03-Feb-99 Larry S. Marso wrote:
> I thought Martin was shepparding the PR.
>
He's probably already sleeping - Finland is 9 hours ahead I guess...
> Somehow we have Freshmeat publishing the wrong text and no one at Slashdot
> paying attention.
>
I did request a change on Freshmeat - five minutes ago, hopefully it'll
come in soon. Usually they are fast. Forget Slashdot.
> Wasn't there any effort to ***pre-contact*** these two primary news
> outlets for the Linux community? Didn't they know it was coming? Hasn't
> there been a couple of days, at least, of dialog with their editors, to
> prime the pump?
>
There is no one to talk to... these sites get a couple of thousands of emails
a day. There is no way you can get anyones attention with a simple software
announcement.
> What about transmitting it to news outlets that have followed "open source"
> closely, as suggested often here?
>
It was in Linux Today, those other ones are weekly newsletter. It 'll appear.
Its not that it is that extremely urgent. I'm shure Martin has submitted to
all the other places, as I said forget Slashdot...
> Hello!?!?!?
>
> Martin, after all the contributions from the community into the PR, are
> you in fact devoting any time and effort to distributing it?
>
Relax, I know you've spent a lot of time here too...
It'll be alright.
> Best regards
> --
> Larry S. Marso
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Roland
Roland Krause
Visiting Research Associate - Center for Computational Mechanics
Washington University, Saint Louis
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