From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Oct 19 22:57:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA00258 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 22:57:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA00249 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 22:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id PAA14307; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:27:20 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971020152720.55567@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:27:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Wes Peters Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Undesirable links to www.FreeBSD.org (was: Cool Page! Your page rules. Too cool. Great design) References: <344A5454.840C2955@prism.gatech.edu> <19971020093400.62100@lemis.com> <199710200408.WAA00246@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199710200408.WAA00246@obie.softweyr.ml.org>; from Wes Peters on Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 10:08:48PM -0600 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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