Re: Ganymede 0.99.8 released

[Dwight Johnson <dwj@linuxtoday.com>]

Jonathan,

Sorry for my delay in getting back to you.

I decided you have enough in your latest release announcement so that
clueless readers will learn what your application is about.

Keep up the great work.

Dwight

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Jonathan Abbey wrote:

> 
> | On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jonathan Abbey wrote:
> | 
> | Hi Jonathan,
> | 
> | > Ganymede 0.99.8 is now available for download at
> | 
> | You have a significant application and I have published a number of your
> | release announcements on Linux Today in the past.
> | 
> | However, our readers are complaining that your release announcements do
> | not explain what Ganymede does and are therefore not that useful. So I
> | have decided to stop publishing them until I have a staff that can fill in
> | the missing information.
> 
> I read those complaints the last time I sent out a Ganymede
> announcement..  they occurred because I had used an old announcement
> template, and left out both the web page URL and the brief synopsis of
> what Ganymede is at the top of the announcement.
> 
> I did include both this time, but I can certainly understand that
> people not directly on the ganymede-announce mailing list (which I
> send the announcements to, rather than directly to LinuxToday) might
> need more context.
> 
> Do you have an idea of how much explanatory material you would like to
> see?
> 
> | On the other hand, if _you_ would consider including this vital information
> | in your announcements, I would be most happy to continue publishing them.
> | You might increase your user base this way.
> | 
> | Regards,
> | Dwight
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