Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:27:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Undesirable links to www.FreeBSD.org (was: Cool Page! Your page rules. Too cool. Great design) Message-ID: <19971020152720.55567@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199710200408.WAA00246@obie.softweyr.ml.org>; from Wes Peters on Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 10:08:48PM -0600 References: <344A5454.840C2955@prism.gatech.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971019152920.263C-100000@x225> <19971020093400.62100@lemis.com> <199710200408.WAA00246@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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On Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 10:08:48PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Greg Lehey writes: >> 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. > > I took a look. I don't think it's funny, but I'm not offended by it > either. I don't agree with him, by the way, but think he has the right > to express his own opinion. > > Now, if it had been an NT logo... ;^) > > But, since I'd have been amused by an NT logo, I can hardly fault him > for the page as a concept, now can I? Agreed. I wrote the first message without expecting the violent reply. I thought he was a bona fide FreeBSD person who would be interested in our opinions. Obviously I was wrong. > I did like the suggestion for a Referrer: trap, that's quite a cool > idea. It's a nice idea. I wonder if anybody cares enough. > We could also apply it to persons coming in from that other gabage > pit, microsoft.com. ;^) Does Microsoft refer to us? We should at least count the links and investigate them if they do :-) Greg
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