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From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
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Subject: Re: What the ??ck!
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G. Adam Stanislav on 2000-10-26 (Thu) at 23:27:27 -0500:
> 
> 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').

Linked from slashdot, an article about "typosquatting":

  http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2646485,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01

-- Johann


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