Re: Request to mailing list freebsd-arch rejected-gui for unix

From: Steve Kargl (sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu)
Date: 06/19/05

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    Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:30:49 -0700
To: DANIEL hoggan <danny280279@hotmail.com>

    On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:42:10PM +0000, DANIEL hoggan wrote:
    >
    > >Your request to the freebsd-arch mailing list
    > >
    > > Posting of your message titled "Hot plugging systems"
    > >
    > >has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the
    > >following reason for rejecting your request:
    > >
    > >"Quite aside for the tone of your post, which comes across in a way
    > >that is very unlikely to encourage the volunteers who write the code
    > >to have any desire to cooperate with you, your message came out to
    > >about 3.3 MB; the upper limit on messages for nearly all FreeBSD.org
    > >mailing lists is 200 KB. There is no need to "attach" additional
    > >material to your message -- merely provide a URL, and allow those who
    > >are sufficiently interested in what you have to say to go look.
    > >
    > >But in order for that strategy to be effective, you will need to craft
    > >your message appropriately; it would be ideal if you were to be able
    > >to show a body of code that you had either created or sponsored: it
    > >need nbe complete, but ot generally, there is a very strong perception
    > >that code speak a lot louder than words.
    > >
    > > -- postmaster@freebsd.org"
    >
    > Here is my code:
    >
    > /****************************************************************************
    > This file is brought to you by the gpl and is available as part of the gge2d
    > graphics engine, This code is unfinished and is only partly complete, this
    > file is to be the complete header file for the graphical component for the
    > gge
    > if you have the time maby you coluld puruse this file and tell me of any
    > problems, bugs or comments you may have.
    > ###END###
    >
    > *****************************************************************************/

    What is the point of this post? 2000+ LOC sent to mailing list
    without previous discussion of the code is somewhat pointless.
    I would suggest that you summarize what the code does and post
    a URL to the code.

    If this is kernel code and you wrote the code, why the GPL? 

    --
steve
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