Ahh, just saw this now - thanks for the news article about Freespace mod, Dreamor
As for the propaganda - yeah, that's tricky. I'm not really participating in the whole Facebook/Twitter/blog craze, so it's hard to actually reach people outside of the folks, who already know what to look for. I've tried to talk about the game in a couple of forums over the years, but never got much response to that.
It certainly doesn't help, that the game is now about 7 years old (wow, really?). Puts off quite some people to deal with such old games.
... hmm ... maybe we should try to get
Good Old Games to release Nexus on their site - would be in good company with the likes of Freespace and I-War and might push the popularity a bit.