From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 13:57:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE6F16A48B for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:57:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from timgreeningjackson@gmail.com) Received: from uproxy.gmail.com (uproxy.gmail.com [66.249.92.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB14043D45 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:57:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from timgreeningjackson@gmail.com) Received: by uproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o2so44557uge for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:57:23 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:to:cc:subject:date:organization:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:x-mimeole:thread-index:in-reply-to:from:message-id; b=j1Yb+eryGmo+xzgPFP3R3GFTpzs4XUGqlZR5Gx+VSJwoCQNn3dl91uCjF5CXjSPJHrYdJj+SQq49RCAvqTB4cZeMnyfMMKPQPF6Nvpasyfd9MeGSOyE5HoYoV8vK3sTf4pyioVXq6z9plCF0X+qu3p4Kw5FaEdzuTqzP+7nCteY= Received: by 10.66.239.7 with SMTP id m7mr309405ugh; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:57:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from tordella ( [213.106.189.79]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id j2sm307055ugf.2006.01.11.05.57.21; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:57:22 -0800 (PST) To: "'Andrew L. Gould'" , "'Nikolas Britton'" Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:57:28 -0000 Organization: Shellike Ltd. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Thread-Index: AcYWYn8A2bE9rvTCQXOPI56YUYvOrgAVBl0Q In-Reply-To: <20060109081209.114ce611@grokwell.org> From: Tim Greening-Jackson Message-ID: <43c50ec2.42cbe3f2.31ad.352e@mx.gmail.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:47:53 +0000 Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, speedydemon@shadowdev.org, 'bor' , 'Frank Laszlo' , KövesdánGá@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Flash Petition (Was Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article) X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:57:28 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > advocacy@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Andrew L. Gould > Sent: 09 January 2006 14:12 > To: Nikolas Britton > Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; speedydemon@shadowdev.org; bor; = Frank > Laszlo; K=F6vesd=E1n G=E1@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Flash Petition (Was Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article) >=20 > How about a campaign where every time a FreeBSD user comes across a > Flash website, he/she sends the webmaster an email stating that we > can't see their content because Flash is not available for FreeBSD? I > wonder if we could generate a noticeable volume. Well, I suppose if you wanted to be super-sneaky/smart, it's fairly easy = to write a web-crawler that would recurse its way through the whole = interweb thing noting those sites with flash and then automatically mailing the webmaster. You could do it in about 10 lines of Python (note I am NOT offering to do this - it's merely a suggestion).