Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 16:08:34 +0930 From: "Ben Minton" <benminton@austarnet.com.au> To: <www@FreeBSD.org> Subject: UNFRIENDLY LINK on FREEBSD.ORG Message-ID: <001c01c24b38$e253f500$1aebdccb@benminton>
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FreeBSD Hi all, great site, I am now a convert to FreeBSD. Being a family man who loves technology I was looking for others like me to contact and discuss things with. From this desire I now have something to details to you. My problem: From the following URL: http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/pgallery.html I went to the Gallery - Personal pages. Scrolling down from A-Z, I got to the entry at #31 & #32, which allegedly belong to the Annetta Family. I clicked on #32, titled : Annetta Family gateway system [escription] This page may be down from time to time, it is on a modem connection (to prove freebsds abilities), it shows pictures and explains how FreeBSD is being used as a router in a house in California Seemed to me to be the sort of people I should talk to, but NO. The Annetta Family gateway system is actually: http://robgate.kiwi.net/, a site that comes up as KABLUM, part of Kablum.com. This appears to be a YAHOO clone, that is a list manager. Didn't want to be there, so I tried HOME on my IE browser, nope, their site had obviously written a script to my browser as my home page is now set to URL: http://www.anything-internet.com/ Using the WHOIS at URL: http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois2.pl I was unable to find an owner, details or name address of the domains: robgate.kiwi.net, kiwi.net or anything-internet.com Each time I tried to go back, I couldn't, my browser was locked into their frame site. I tried CONTACT US at the bottom of their website, alll I got was a scripting window asking "did I want my home page set to http://www.kablum.com" Once again using the URL: http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois2.pl I was unable to find any details on the domain: kablum.com My request: That the entries #31 & #32 be removed from the page at URL: http://www.freebsd.org/gallery/pgallery.html as clearly they are not interested in displaying or being associated with an discussions of FreeBSD. Instead they are acting sneakily and in the same spirit as SPAMMERs. They offer no contact details, no back page facility, have written a script that was resident in my browser cache, have made afforts to hide their identity and do not belong in a site such as www.freebsd.org. Sorry for the gripe, but this really annoys me, hope you can do something. Cheers, Ben Ben Minton Darwin, Australia benminton@austarnet.com.au current ip address: 203.220.235.26 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message
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