Thats a good idea. I have just wrote a blog post (hebrew) about a similar problem I had:
http://blog.oriidan.info/2010/03/%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%92%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%98-jobnetcoil-%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%99-%D7%94%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%98/ -- Ori Idan On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Orr Dunkelman <orr.dunkel...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Well, we all know that feeling when we try to approach the website > http://some.url.here and fail because they require IE on a windows > machine. > > While the situation is slowly getting better (in some aspects), we are > still far away from the wonderland we promised ourselves (yeah, once > there will be 1000's of Linux users, once there will be an official > organization, once the moon will be green). In these instances we > usually complain when we hit a specific website where things do not > work. This sometimes lead to better support, but sometimes not. The > reason for failure is that we usually do not act as a group. > > Hence, I would like to suggest a "rant" meeting, where we will all sit > down together, and at the same time send complaint letters to as many > websites as possible (even those we are not users of). While it is > easy to answer to 1 person complaining on lack of true support, 20 > people, each writing their own letter arriving at the same time (give > or take), is something which is harder to discard. > > Before the meeting we will collect the offending websites, and in the > meeting, each of us will send a polite email (with emphasis on > "polite") to the webmasters of all the websites (even if you are not a > client, mention that you cannot become a client until they have > support for your browser). > > Besides a hope for a better tomorrow for us and our children ;) we > will also increase our exposure, maybe shift things in the right > direction, and of course, have a wonderful time ranting on all the > nasty webmasters who insist that IE is the only solution. > > Any takers? (btw, this is a meeting which we can also hold > electronically, so those of us who cannot attend physically, can > attend through chats, IMs, and such), > > -- > Orr Dunkelman, > orr.dunkel...@gmail.com > > GPG fingerprint: C2D5 C6D6 9A24 9A95 C5B3 2023 6CAB 4A7C B73F D0AA > (This key will never sign Emails, only other PGP keys. The key > corresponds to o...@vipe.technion.ac.il) > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > Haifux@haifux.org > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux >
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