From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 1 16: 1:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from o-o.org (o-o.org [207.252.201.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB4814D58 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 16:01:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Received: from localhost (licia@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by o-o.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26214; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:01:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from licia@o-o.org) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:01:30 -0600 (CST) From: Licia To: Zippy Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User Registration [was Is there a "how did you hear about us?" ] In-Reply-To: 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 Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Zippy wrote: > EXACTLY. Thanks for putting it into more intelligible form :) > > Plus, if it's done such that the discount is for the NEXT release, it > could be used to boost pre-order sales, which is always a good thing. > Yes, that's an idea I wouldn't feel too bad about suggesting :) > Another option (anti-DMs aren't gonna like this, but what the hell :)): > the list could be used by WC to gauge interest for other product > offerings. I'm not suggesting that the list be sold by WC to 3rd parties, > but internally, it might be of use. This is a policy decision that needs > to be negotiated between WC and the FreeBSD project folks. But if WC has > interest in such a list for this purpose, they might have an interest in > maintaining the list and just sending reports to the FreeBSD folks. (Is > our goal to get numbers, or to get the actual contact information? If > numbers, the above plan might work. WC's interest would definitely be > contact information.) > > SB I would worry that any possible use of the information outside of the FreeBSD project and Walnut Creek would probably discourage people from registering... I wouldn't mind the FreeBSD project or WC having my information personally, but would be -very- unhappy if other people got ahold of it... [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/~licia/ ] [ Alias : Ladywolf] [ Telnet to o-o.org and log in as bbs ] [ ssh -l bbs -C o-o.org ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] main(){int num[4]={1768122732,762265697,1919889007,103};printf("%s\n",num);} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message