Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:14:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Daniel Haischt <danielh@privat.toplink.de>, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apache/PHP/Oracle8... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905131410250.85864-100000@burlap.eilio.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9905140847410.541-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
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No, generating a slightly different letter wouldn't be that hard. Someone would just have to write a bunch of slightly different letters. I'm thinking something like this: Set up a web site with a form that asks for your email and name (anything else needed?), and then sends off the email. Options: - The email could be randomly selected from the pool of letters, substiting your name and email, etc. - The first email could be 1, the second, 2, etc... (sequential and looping). - Or, you fill the form out once, and then every week, or maybe two weeks, or something insistent, but nice, an email gets sent out. Also, every unique email gets added to a list, and displayed on a page. This url is included in all the emails to Oracle so they can see just how many people have signed up. I'd be happy to write the scripts to do this and host it, but I'm going to need help writing the letters and figuring out who the best person to send this to at oracle is. Thoughts? -philip [snip] > > On a different note - What do you think is the best way to get Oracle's > > attention? Lots and lots of polite email? A mass of signatures? Who's > > the best person to contact there? I've emailed a couple different depts > > and never hear back. > > > > I'd be happy to provide server resources for the collection of names, or > > write an app that sends email on your behalf (assuming you fill out the > > form :). > > > > What do people think? > > Yes, this sounds like a good idea. Trying to convince clients to go > with FreeBSD would be a heckuva lot easier if only *ONE* of the big 3 > database vendors would come online. <sigh> > > Hmm. I suppose a program that autogenerates a slightly different letter > each time would be out of the question? > > Cheers. > -- > Jonathan Chen | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves > | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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