From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 14:18:09 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 744A816A41F for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:18:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: from ritamari.vonostingroup.com (ritamari.vonostingroup.com [216.144.193.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2BBC43D45; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:18:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: from adsl-68-72-248-38.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net ([68.72.248.38] helo=[192.168.1.33]) by ritamari.vonostingroup.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ewgna-00024K-7g; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:18:02 -0500 Message-ID: <43C51396.7060705@vonostingroup.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:17:58 -0500 From: Frank Laszlo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Greening-Jackson References: <43c50ec2.42cbe3f2.31ad.352e@mx.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43c50ec2.42cbe3f2.31ad.352e@mx.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.2.0 OpenPGP: url=http://www.franksworld.org/~laszlof/keys/0x0B3FCA4B.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ritamari.vonostingroup.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - vonostingroup.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:48:07 +0000 Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, speedydemon@shadowdev.org, 'bor' , "Kövesdán Gá"@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 14:18:09 -0000 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