From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 27 3:47:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.tfcc.com (tfcci.com [204.210.226.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A1437B4CF for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 03:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by proxy.tfcc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA19114 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:48:16 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: proxy.tfcc.com: mail set sender to using -f Received: from icestorm.tfcc.com(192.168.4.115) by proxy.tfcc.com via smap (V2.1/2.1a) id xma019110; Fri, 27 Oct 00 06:47:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:47:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Fuhrman X-Sender: cfuhrman@icestorm.tfcc.com To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What the ??ck! In-Reply-To: <20001026232727.A228@whizkidtech.net> Message-ID: Organization: 21st Century Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Howdy, This is actually more common than you'd think. For instance there's the following sites: http://www.vokswagen.com http://www.levisjeans.com etc. Silly, really... On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > Hmmm, sheesh, gosh! > > So, I entered what I thought was http://www.freebsd.org/ in my browser, > and here comes this weird page full of banners, plus a JavaScript pop-up > window (gosh, I hate those!). > > And I'm wondering what the heck happened. Then I noticed I mistyped. The > site was actually http://www.frebsd.org/ (just one 'e'). > > Looks to me someone is trying to cash in on FreeBSD's good name, and > hoping others will mistype just as I did. > -- Chris Fuhrman | Twenty First Century Communications cfuhrman@tfcci.com | Software Engineer (W) 614-442-1215 x271 | (F) 614-442-5662 | PGP/GPG Public Key Available on Request To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message