Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:56:03 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Joel Sutton <jsutton@panic.oeit.vic.edu.au> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advocacy effect of the ports collection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902150955250.3101-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990215181802.10785L-100000@panic.oeit.vic.edu.au>
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Joel Sutton wrote: > On 15 Feb 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > One thing I noticed the other day: if I submit an ftpsearch query for > > a piece of software that's in our ports collection, most of the hits I > > get are distfiles on FreeBSD ftp mirrors. Nice to see "FreeBSD" > > plastered all over your browser when you're actually doing something > > totally unrelated like installing the latest libpng or whatnot on your > > University's Solaris / IRIX network :) > > Can this be classed as "positive" advocacy??? Sounds like it has the > potential to annoy a lot of people. Do you get annoyed at Sunsite because it has "sun" in the hostname? Me I get annoyed b/c they're all layed out differently and often busy or not available.. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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