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

[Steve Kargl]

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 at 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