Subject: Re: Community Issues
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/21/1999 11:21:28
Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>  wrote:
 > First, I'd request that someone who can create a netbsd-chat mailing list,
 solely for the purpose of random chatter amongst NetBSD people that may or
 > may not involve NetBSD. (The IRC channel doesn't seem to grab enough people
 > to fill this void. Besides, it's IRC.)

I would support a random 'chatter' mailing list as, at present, it seems
that 'current-users' often lapses into that and that's not nearly the 
right forum for general chatter.  In fact, this message is innappropriate
for netbsd-users/current-users...

If a significant number of others concur with this then I'll see if
I can 'make it so'.

 > Second, I'd like to see if anyone's interested in periodic regional get-
 > togethers. I'm in the Boston area, more or less, so I'd be happy to meet
 > folks in that area.

Whenever I go down to the bay-area, I try to get together with as many
netbsd folk as possible just to 'say hi' and consume a few beer... It
would probably be appropriate to announce such things on a chatter list.