Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 22:47:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net> To: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.980412222902.507A-100000@mybsd.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980409180601.1026A-100000@acp.qiv.com>
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On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Jay Nelson wrote: > First -- Jordan -- since you're the main man in this, put the pencil > to the paper and figure out what it would cost to mount a program of > professional news releases -- including customer profiles. Look at the > number of CD-ROMS sold and divide cost by CDs and add to CD cost. Look > at the newsletter and consider subscription. Most of us can afford > some extra bucks and would be happy to spend it for the credibility. > Think in terms of two to three times per month for the news releases. I can afford the extra few bucks... > Second: poll the rest of us for contributions. Many of us are using > FreeBSD in production environments. (Yeah, I'll volunteer -- even > though I can't write worth a plug nickle.) With Yahoo and cdrom.com, > all the ISPs out there and those of us in the commercial world, there > _have_ to be some interesting stories. I do tech support part time for an ISP that I belong to and they use BSDI for most of their stuff but they just installed 2 FBSD 2.2.5 machines to do NAT for 2 ADSL sites (both local high schools) and their local internal LAN. I wanted to install a FBSD box to do NAT at the local public library where I got to install an ADSL modem but it was nixed. I'll volunteer and I like to think I can write somewhat coherently. <g> > Third: for all of us who never bothered to register (which includes > me) lets do it, so there is a reasonably accurate account of installed > systems. Statistics don't mean much in the real world, but it's what > made NT "great" and will help with the first point. Hmm, what do you mean by register? I bought my disks from WC, isnt that enought to register? I assume all of you folks with direct connections that can acutally install FBSD via FTP in a reasonable time that have not "registered" Keith CityLink kwoody@citytel.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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