Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 06:02:33 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Congratulations! Message-ID: <26319.853855353@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jan 1997 08:54:48 EST." <Pine.BSI.3.95.970121085330.1465E-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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I figured I'd just forward it and let the web folks decide what they
wanted to do with it, if anything.
I agree that most of these groups have pretty weird standards (and I
like the "Bottom of the web" award people, since they at least
acknowledge this fairly and squarely :-). I've even been sent mail
telling me that my home page won some "Edmund G. Thurmond" or
"InterWebFocusWorld" award and I should please put pointers to them
all over my page in acknowledgement of this high honor. Yeah, right! :-)
I think it's just picked at random, like the Publisher's Clearing
House Sweepstakes ("Dear Mr/Mrs Occupant, you may already be a
winner!") and we should just ignore this stuff unless it comes from
some organization we've actually heard of, like WebPoint or the Klu
Klux Klan ("And in acknowledgement of all you've done for the cause of
white supremacy, we'd like to nominate your ...")
:-)
Jordan
> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, NetGuide wrote:
>
> > Congratulations! NetGuide has selected your site as a Gold Site -- one of
> > the best on the Web. The Gold Award recognizes Web sites that meet our
> > stringent criteria for overall excellence. To learn more about NetGuide,
> > visit us at http://www.netguide.com.
> >
> > NetGuide has screened over 100,000 URLs and reviewed more than 50,000 sites
> > and our Gold Award goes to only 15,000 of the Web's best sites.
>
> Hm... 30% of all sites make the cut. Personally, I think their
> standards must be pretty low. :(
>
> -john
>
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