Spot on. G
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 15:07, Soren Harward wrote: > On Wed 14 Apr 2004 at 19:53:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > ... we ought not to shrink from implicit or explicit missionary zeal with > > regards to *anything* the UUG does. > > Except keep in mind who are target audience is, and who the community > backing us is. BYU sports teams don't hand out pass-along cards at every > single game. The Church doesn't send rogue missionaries to countries where > they're not welcome. Trying to give someone a message -- no matter how > important -- when they don't want to hear it doesn't make you zealous. It > just makes you an overbearing fool. > > In case you have missed this rather crucial point, few geeks are in favor of > organized religion. The number of people on Slashdot who bash Mormons along > with SCO should give you a pretty good idea that we're not entirely in > friendly territory. Using the SSS CD to evangelize anything other than Open > Source software would be counterproductive at best, and probably even > detrimental to our case. Just make the CD, explicitly associate it with > BYU, and people will already know where we stand as far as religion goes. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
