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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:41:00 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wpeters@xylan.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fast Search reveals articles about FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <35815A1C.D382C93B@xylan.com>
References:  <5939.897634841@time.cdrom.com>

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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > Here, try it yourself:
> >
> > http://cma.zdnet.com/texis/cma/cma/~OJYeNHzS/edit.html?feditsrch=FreeBSD&name
> =Go%21
> 
> Yeah, pity each and every entry says "You're not subscribed!  Please give
> me all your credit card information for your free subscription and we
> promise not to start charging things on it right away, OK?"
> 
> Bah. :-)  So much for that on-line magazine.

Yeah, I was so excited to see the list I sent the message to -advocacy before
I clicked on any of the links.  What a crock.  As if they couldn't make enough
by throwing banner ads in your face.

It does, at least, give us an idea of the coverage we're getting.  This list
had a lot of duplicates, so their search engine isn't particularly good, but
we're getting coverage in places I'd never imagined, like MacWorld.  With a
little effort from -advocacy, maybe we can double or triple this.

By the way, whenever you're reading your favorite e-zine, click on a couple
of ads just to keep the juices flowing.  That way, your e-zines will stick
around.  Most companies can't track sales related to adds, just raw clicks
from ads.  ;^)

-- 
Wes Peters                                              Who's going to save you
Principal Engineer                                       When you're a slave to
Xylan Corporation                                  A diamond as big as the Ritz
wpeters@xylan.com                                              -- Jimmy Buffett

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