Tim Greening-Jackson wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew L. Gould >> Sent: 09 January 2006 14:12 >> To: Nikolas Britton >> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; bor; Frank >> Laszlo; Kövesdán [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Flash Petition (Was Re: FreeBSD as a Desktop Article) >> >> How about a campaign where every time a FreeBSD user comes across a >> Flash website, he/she sends the webmaster an email stating that we >> can't see their content because Flash is not available for FreeBSD? I >> wonder if we could generate a noticeable volume. >> > > Well, I suppose if you wanted to be super-sneaky/smart, it's fairly easy to > write a web-crawler that would recurse its way through the whole interweb > thing noting those sites with flash and then automatically mailing the > webmaster. You could do it in about 10 lines of Python (note I am NOT > offering to do this - it's merely a suggestion). >
Kinda like those crawlers that find broken links on you site and mail you offering to fix them.. I hate getting those and usually discard them as spam. I imagine the same would be true for your idea. __________________________________________________ Frank Laszlo System Administrator The VonOstin Group Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.vonostingroup.com Mobile: 248-863-7584 _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
