Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:17:58 -0500 From: Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> To: Tim Greening-Jackson <timgreeningjackson@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, speedydemon@shadowdev.org, 'bor' <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>, "Kövesdán Gá"@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Flash Petition (Was Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article) Message-ID: <43C51396.7060705@vonostingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <43c50ec2.42cbe3f2.31ad.352e@mx.gmail.com> References: <43c50ec2.42cbe3f2.31ad.352e@mx.gmail.com>
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Tim Greening-Jackson wrote: > >> -----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; Kövesdán Gá@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: Re: Flash Petition (Was Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article) >> >> 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). > Kinda like those crawlers that find broken links on you site and mail you offering to fix them.. I hate getting those and usually discard them as spam. I imagine the same would be true for your idea. __________________________________________________ Frank Laszlo System Administrator The VonOstin Group Email: laszlof@tvog.net WWW: http://www.vonostingroup.com Mobile: 248-863-7584
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