From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 26 05:54:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA18739 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 05:54:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA18726 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 05:54:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from opsys@mail.webspan.net) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with SMTP id IAA06353; Tue, 26 May 1998 08:47:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 08:52:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Open Systems Networking X-Sender: opsys@orion.webspan.net To: phil grainger cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: A proposal for focus In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980526221451.007fe780@m1.gdr.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 May 1998, phil grainger wrote: > 1./ talking about doing things > 2./ tinkering with freebsd boxes > 3./ being prepared to accept little or no progress > 4./ enjoy moving onto too newer more interesting topics > 5./ talking about doing things > 6./ not starting what we finished For me, the best way is to keep doing FreeBSD consulting, and for instance building dial on demand ppp boxes with good size squid caches and a web server and mail server on them to serve as small office net connections. These things sell like hot cakes. There cheap, they dont fail, and people are stunned that FreeBSD is powering these boxes when 95 and NT cant even stay up for 24 hours with a SINGLE user and yet these little dinky 486's are serving the entire LAN. > What I'm suggesting is we donate a couple of twin pentium pro's, some huge > scsi raid arrays, a 100mbit fibre satellite link to some 3rd world country > and set up "the largest porn site in the world". We then use the enormous > amount of traffic through the web server as a means "promoting" whatever we > want as well as porn and FreeBSD. Just think of the amount of money we can > make out of it. Then everyone can have a section of the porn server > advocating whatever it is we want to advocate. I'll even write an article > for newsletter #3 about how advocacy started such a great task "FreeBSD: > hard core through and through" > And we still keep FreeBSD free ... Already been done, see www.persiankitty.com Massive porn site (or so ive been told) that runs FreeBSD. Talk to them about slapping a FreeBSD logo on the front. Chris -- "I don't do favors, I accumulate debts" ===================================| Open Systems Networking And Consulting. FreeBSD 2.2.6 is available now! | Phone: 316-326-6800 -----------------------------------| 1402 N. Washington, Wellington, KS-67152 FreeBSD: The power to serve! | E-Mail: opsys@open-systems.net http://www.freebsd.org | Consulting-Network Engineering-Security ===================================| http://open-systems.net -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQENAzPemUsAAAEH/06iF0BU8pMtdLJrxp/lLk3vg9QJCHajsd25gYtR8X1Px1Te gWU0C4EwMh4seDIgK9bzFmjjlZOEgS9zEgia28xDgeluQjuuMyUFJ58MzRlC2ONC foYIZsFyIqdjEOCBdfhH5bmgB5/+L5bjDK6lNdqD8OAhtC4Xnc1UxAKq3oUgVD/Z d5UJXU2xm+f08WwGZIUcbGcaonRC/6Z/5o8YpLVBpcFeLtKW5WwGhEMxl9WDZ3Kb NZH6bx15WiB2Q/gZQib3ZXhe1xEgRP+p6BnvF364I/To9kMduHpJKU97PH3dU7Mv CXk2NG3rtOgLTEwLyvtBPqLnbx35E0JnZc0k5YkABRO0JU9wZW4gU3lzdGVtcyA8 b3BzeXNAb3Blbi1zeXN0ZW1zLm5ldD4= =BBjp -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message