Date: 15 Feb 1999 08:51:56 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> 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: <xzp1zjsumsj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Joel Sutton's message of "Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:19:04 %2B1100 (EST)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990215181802.10785L-100000@panic.oeit.vic.edu.au>
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Joel Sutton <jsutton@panic.oeit.vic.edu.au> writes: > 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. No, why should it annoy people? You get the file you're looking for, and more likely than not you find a mirror pretty close to you. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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