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Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:25:59 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org>
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@freebsd-services.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/gallery gallery.xml 
Message-ID:  <200108211925.f7LJPxU47929@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org>  of "Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:30:12 PDT." <20010813153012.I37054@klapaucius.zer0.org> 

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Hi,

I think Greg is right here, the quoted email shouldn't exclude their 
site from being in our gallery.

Maybe this discussion was taken off line ?

> On 2001-08-12 17:55 -0700, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > dougb       2001/08/12 17:55:28 PDT
> >=20
> >   Modified files:
> >     en/gallery           gallery.xml=20
> >   Log:
> >   Remove the Persian Kitty site, based on commentary:
> >  =20
> >   I'll tell you what -- I'm never going to help, much less give the
> >   freebsd team the time of day, again.
> >   Regards,
> >   Lew Payne
> >   Network Operations
> >   Persian Kitty's Adult Links
> 
> While it is a good form of revenge, this is not a valid reason for
> removing Persian Kitty from our gallery.  Lew may be an asshole, or he
> may have just missed his morning coffee, or perhaps the banner ad for
> forearm-sized dildos was instead drawn as an ad for four-arm-sized
> dildos.  Oops.  So he made his negative remark.  That has nothing to
> do with Persian Kitty's presence in the gallery.
> 
> The gallery is there to promote FreeBSD just as much, if not more,
> than it is to promote the companies linked within.  People don't
> visit freebsd.org to find porn sites.  Persian Kitty is a large,
> well-known Internet business, and a good one to be able to have
> in the gallery.  Sex sells, and in this instance, sex promotes
> FreeBSD's speed and reliability. =20
> 
> In short, please revert this arbitrary and detrimental change.
> 
> Greg
> --=20
> Gregory S. Sutter                   Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm
> mailto:gsutter@zer0.org             for a day.  Set a man on fire, and he'll
> http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/       be warm for the rest of his life.=20
> hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD

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