Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 16:21:00 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: tech@cdrom.com Subject: Slogan contest. ARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Message-ID: <21884.878948460@time.cdrom.com>
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You folks are going to just hate me for this, but I'm afraid that a little mistake in the way I set up the vote counter has nuked all the votes I've tabulated so far [insert sounds of head striking brick wall here]. I'm really really sorry about this and can only ask for everyone's patience and understanding in submitting their votes just once again. For those who've already deleted my first message from their mailboxes, I append my original message below. Again, my sincere apologies for wasting everyone's time here. What happened is that instead of appending votes, it was writing the file each time from the beginning and, since I only submitted one vote of my own as a test, I didn't catch this until I went just now to look at the voting so far and found only the last vote in the file. DOH!! Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed [heads back to bed]. If you voted before, please resubmit your vote. If you haven't voted yet, now would be a very good time! :) I'm going to have to make my own collection of pointy hats for this one as I think the main one is already in use. Thanks! To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Slogan contest finalists. Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 01:34:48 -0800 Message-ID: <16063.878895288@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> My apologies for the delay in sending this out. Here are the top 20 "finalists" for the FreeBSD slogan contest. Please cast your votes for any of the following slogans, culled from the list of ones submitted to me which weren't too overtly silly or in direct conflict with some other company's slogan (though #17 is a bit borderline there). RULES: Each person gets 3 votes which they may cast in any way they choose. If you *really like* a slogan and want to cast all 3 of your votes for it, that's fine. If you mostly like one and have a 2nd favorite, cast 2 and 1. If you're split between 3 then simply give each its own vote. :) Please submit your votes to votes@time.cdrom.com in this format: <number> = <votes> e.g.: 3 = 2 6 = 1 Would cast 2 votes for slogan #3 and 1 for #6. Your message body should therefore contain 1 line at the minimum and 3 lines at the maximum. Anything else will simply be stripped out by my tallying program so DO NOT send comments or other data intended for human eyes to votes@time.cdrom.com since human eyes will not be looking at it and your extra typing will merely be wasted! :-) Thanks. PRIZES: The slogan winner will get a free lifetime FreeBSD CD subscription and a FreeBSD T-shirt. Stuffing the ballot box on behalf of a friend is also not encouraged unless said friend has *also* written your favorite slogan(s) - we all also have to live with the results of this contest, ladies and gentlemen.. :-) And now the proposed slogans and their authors: 1. FreeBSD: Power, not price. [Eivind Eklund] 2. FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Servers [Charles Wimmer] 3. FreeBSD: The power to Serve [spork] 4. FreeBSD: Speed, Stability, Source! [Lachlan O'Dea] 5. FreeBSD: Powering the Internet [Gary T. Corcoran] 6. FreeBSD: the best things in life are free. [Jeremy Lea] 7. FreeBSD: art, science and tradition beyond 2000. [Pedro Giffuni] 8. FreeBSD: Networking the future [Joao Carlos Mendes Luis] 9. FreeBSD: Why pay more for less? [Joao Carlos Mendes Luis] 10. FreeBSD: Software that actually works. [John Fieber] 11. FreeBSD: A System Worth Operating [Troy Settle] 12. FreeBSD: Because it works [Kevin from Atipa] 13. FreeBSD: Pure computing power. [ksmm] 14. FreeBSD: Find your PC's potential. [ksmm] 15. FreeBSD: When you care enough to run the very best. [Ray Seals] 16. FreeBSD: Making networks work. [Leo Papandreou] 17. FreeBSD: Where you want to go today. [Terry Lambert] 18. FreeBSD: Building Better Network Servers. [Alex Boisvert] 19. FreeBSD: The Operating System for the Internet [Annelise Anderson] 20. FreeBSD: Power, when price doesn't matter! [Tore Dahl] [Some editing was performed on a few slogans to make them just a bit more terse, but the essential message of each was unchanged]. Again, each person gets 3 votes and should send their "ballot" to votes@time.cdrom.com, one slogan # per line and with its vote count following the `=' sign. Thanks! Jordan
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