From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Feb 15 10:00:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA07926 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:00:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-16.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA07870 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:00:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA06446; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:56:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:56:03 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda To: Joel Sutton cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advocacy effect of the ports collection 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 Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Joel Sutton wrote: > On 15 Feb 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > One thing I noticed the other day: if I submit an ftpsearch query for > > a piece of software that's in our ports collection, most of the hits I > > get are distfiles on FreeBSD ftp mirrors. Nice to see "FreeBSD" > > plastered all over your browser when you're actually doing something > > totally unrelated like installing the latest libpng or whatnot on your > > University's Solaris / IRIX network :) > > Can this be classed as "positive" advocacy??? Sounds like it has the > potential to annoy a lot of people. Do you get annoyed at Sunsite because it has "sun" in the hostname? Me I get annoyed b/c they're all layed out differently and often busy or not available.. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message