Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:29:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>, 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.4.10.9905132127340.85864-100000@burlap.eilio.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990513163811.26546X-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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All - Someone sent me email privately saying that this might do more harm than good. That it would be viewed with annoyance from Oracle. He mentioned something about Xi graphics not supporting FreeBSD and something Jordan Hubbard had said. I didn't see that thread so don't know what happened. What do people think? I'd really like to hear from anyone on the FreeBSD team... about the last thing I want is to hurt it... Thanks -philip On Thu, 13 May 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 1999, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > > 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? > > I was thinking more of something like: > > Name: > Title: > Company: > Number of Emp: > Planned use of oracle: > Planned License: > Why Oracle on FreeBSD: > Kept private: > Email: > Tele: > > Automatically mailed and archived on a web page for them to see, the > email would look something like: > > --- > > Request for Oracle-FreeBSD > > <Name> at who is the <Title> at <Company> is interested in Oracle on > FreeBSD. The license sought is <num license> of <License> > > You can reach <Name> at <Email> or <Tele>. > > To see other users requesint an oracle version of FreeBSD please > visit: http://url/... > > --- > > The private stuff could be given to Oracle if they desired to put some > "real people" behind these requests. > > I want oracle on FreeBSD dammit! > > -Alfred > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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