> >  Sorry for stupid question, just found "free software/open source". 
> > Maybe it
> > should be started with capital letters :)

next time :-)


> Maybe it shouldn't be on 'tech-kern' which is completely the wrong 
> place for it. 

I'm sorry for having disturbed you. It's hard to find proper lists or
contacts in general for this kind of purpose. I tried to contact single
persons involved in projects or "places" like "press contact" of several
FS/OS projects (including NetBSD - maybe he is doing holidays) some time
ago, asking where to send my request. I didn't get _any_ response, even
not some "go to hell" which I would accept. 

>  It should also be noted that I've seen fairly regular 
> occurences of "students wanting to survey FS/OS developers for their 
> masters thesis" in the last few months.  Maybe it's a new way of 
> harvesting email addresses? 

How does it should work? Writing to a mailing list you published your
email address alrady. So it is more like I invited some spammers to my
address, sending the request.

>  Or maybe this is the latest fashion in 
> Masters Theses...

That is true observation, maybe you should add some information for
studends writing master thesises etc. on the NetBSD webpage, what to do
(getting away, where to send a request, ..).


Frauke