From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jan 7 5:34:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E30A015852 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 05:34:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA17397; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 08:33:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <200001071333.IAA17397@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: Possible idea to raise funds. In-Reply-To: from Omachonu Ogali at "Jan 6, 2000 9:22:12 pm" To: oogali@intranova.net (Omachonu Ogali) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 08:33:56 -0500 (EST) Cc: dwilde1@thuntek.net, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, matt@BabCom.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you think you can actually sell accounts, go for it. All this requires from freebsd.org is a single host delegation. I suspect that if you (or anyone) is willing to donate servers, bandwidth, sysadmin time, and whatnot to this effort, or if you can convince someone else to donate all this for this effort, you can swing the host delegation. If the folks up at WC had the hardware and time to spare for this, FreeBSD would be in considerably better shape than it is. With the preponderance of free email services nowadays, though, this seems rather redundant. I have more shell accounts than I know what to do with; most people who want one can get one. IMHO, a volunteer sysadmin's time would be better spent doing pre-release testing. As far as donated bandwidth and whatnot goes; if you have that to spare, contact freebsd.org and ask what they need most badly. I prefer to donate my $ to FreeBSD by subscribing to -stable and -current on CD. Similarly, I hope to write enough articles to one day be offered md5@freebsd.org as a reward for my efforts. (Either that, or a video clip of Jordan falling off the chair he jumps up and down on.) ==ml > Why bother to add the clutter and load? > > Omachonu Ogali > Intranova Networking Group > > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Donald Wilde wrote: > > > "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > > > > > I have thought of perhaps a way to raise some funds for the FreeBSD > > > > project. I was thinking, why not sell pop3, @freebsd.org e-mail > > > > accounts. I don't know about how popular it would be, but I would > > > > definately buy one, and I think it would be a good way to get the > > > > name out some more. What do you think? > > > > > > FreeBSD.org accounts are already sort of the "executive perk" of those > > > who care enough about FreeBSD to volunteer their labor, either as > > > docs, ports or src committers. Not to say that this alone has been > > > their incentive, but hey, they're volunteers and there are so few > > > tangible things one gets as a volunteer that each and every one counts > > > for something. :) > > > > > So how about so-n-so@members.freebsd.org? or something like that? > > -- > > Donald Wilde "Linking Minds and Micros" > > ================= S i l v e r L y n x =================== > > PMB 117, 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd SE v: 505-771-0709 f: 771-1356 > > Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 web: http://www.Silver-Lynx.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message