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From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: Undesirable links to www.FreeBSD.org (was: Cool Page!  Your page rules.  Too cool.  Great design)
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The solution?  Simple; configure www.freebsd.org to redirect any requests
that have a Referer: header from that page to a page that says "you know,
morons use all OSes.  That is an example of a FreeBSD-using moron.  There
are also Linux using morons, MacOS using morons and Plan 9 using morons.
Don't take the word of any moron to represent the OS.  Follow this link to
go to the page originally requested; hope you like FreeBSD even if morons 
are allowed to use it".  Easy to setup with Apache.

However, that would require that the page matter and the fact is it
doesn't.  It is stupid; nothing more, nothing less.

On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:

> Following up to -chat
> On Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 03:43:54PM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Derrick Brown wrote:
> >
> >> Your page SUCKS.
> >
> > Are you referring to
> >
> > http://www.pcola.gulf.net/~spatula/linux/
> >
> > ?
> >
> > To the best of my knowledge, this page and person have no
> > official connection to FreeBSD than that of (evidentally) user
> > and (avid) supporter.  We generally welcome all users and
> > supporters.  As a project, we exercise no control over the
> > contents of the above page.  You should email any suggestions or
> > opinions you have [regarding the above page] to whoever controls
> > it (apparently Nick Johnson <spatula@gulf.net>).
> >
> > Unlike Linux, FreeBSD is centrally controlled, and if you need
> > definitive information on FreeBSD, your first source should be
> > www.freebsd.org and the various mirrors, many of which also
> > provide translations (such as www.jp.freebsd.org).
> 
> In case others haven't seen this, I suggest you take a look now.  I
> think somebody should tell this guy that the average FreeBSD user
> doesn't think it's funny.
> 
> Greg
>