From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 10 04:17:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA20298 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 04:17:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA20293 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 04:17:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA05363; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:17:16 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980410211713.05937@welearn.com.au> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:17:14 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Nicholas Charles Brawn Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" References: <19980410200542.08150@welearn.com.au> <19980410210804.52297@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19980410210804.52297@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 09:08:04PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 09:08:04PM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 08:42:55PM +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: > > A friend of mine is seeking to become a local .au equivalent of > > cheapbytes.com selling such things as free *nix software as well as cheap > > hardware. I had a cursory look at www.cdrom.com and it offered information > > on current resellers, but not information on how to become one (apart from > > emailing the people @cdrom.com). Perhaps some information along these > > lines should be available via the web? > > I'd like to see information about where FreeBSD can be purchased. If you met > someone shopping in Dymocks what would you say to them? In my experience > there's strong resistance to sending money overseas for the first time. Oops, I misread what you'd said. I've just looked at the list of resellers and there's no way to tell if they stock FreeBSD, and I can't see any resellers listed for Australia. We could do with a FreeBSD-specific list. -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message