Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:47:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Fuhrman <cfuhrman@tfcci.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What the ??ck! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010270645430.5744-100000@icestorm.tfcc.com> In-Reply-To: <20001026232727.A228@whizkidtech.net>
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Howdy, This is actually more common than you'd think. For instance there's the following sites: http://www.vokswagen.com http://www.levisjeans.com etc. Silly, really... On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > Hmmm, sheesh, gosh! > > So, I entered what I thought was http://www.freebsd.org/ in my browser, > and here comes this weird page full of banners, plus a JavaScript pop-up > window (gosh, I hate those!). > > And I'm wondering what the heck happened. Then I noticed I mistyped. The > site was actually http://www.frebsd.org/ (just one 'e'). > > Looks to me someone is trying to cash in on FreeBSD's good name, and > hoping others will mistype just as I did. > -- Chris Fuhrman | Twenty First Century Communications cfuhrman@tfcci.com | Software Engineer (W) 614-442-1215 x271 | (F) 614-442-5662 | PGP/GPG Public Key Available on Request To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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