Re: Out of curiousity: Who am I mailing to?

2004-05-12 Thread platanthera
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 06:42, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Sir, ... I'm just wondrin' who exactly am I mailing to? ... Not exclusively to male individuals. Please try not to make anyone feel you're not interested in their opinion because of their gender. thanks

Re: Out of curiousity: Who am I mailing to?

2004-05-12 Thread Simon Barner
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: I'm just wondrin' who exactly am I mailing to? Are you all employees from FreeBSD Mailing Center? As the others have already pointed out: this is a FreeBSD user mailing list. But speaking of employees: cheques are welcome anyway ;-) SCRN, Simon signature.asc

Re: Out of curiousity: Who am I mailing to?

2004-05-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Sir, I'm totally a beginner and I'm glad cause it seems to me that I always get response to every question that I send to freebsd mailing list. And not just one, but I always receive more than what I really need!(isn't it cool!) Welcome to FreeBSD. I'm just wondrin' who

Re: Out of curiousity: Who am I mailing to?

2004-05-12 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry McAllister writes: There is no such thing. In fact there aren't any employees. FreeBSD is written and maintained by volunteers (tho a few are fortunate that their employers where-ever they work consider their contribution to FreeBSD to be valid parts of their jobs). It is

Re: Out of curiousity: Who am I mailing to?

2004-05-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
It is my understanding that there are - or were - a very small number of people who work directly for FreeBSD. (Jordan Hubard (now with Apple) and Kirk McCusick come to mind.) Well, they can answer for themselves if they choose. I don't know their details. Anyway there is no

Re: Out of curiousity: Who am I mailing to?

2004-05-11 Thread Murray Taylor
You are mailing to a list that has thousands of users ... We all see the emails sent here. And if we know the answer, any one of us (you too) can send that in to help the original questioner, and to contribute to the general knowledge pool... (keep reading the emails - you will learn from