Re: [Fwd: OSDisc.com donating 10% to FreeBSD Foundation]

From: Ceri Davies (setantae_at_submonkey.net)
Date: 09/22/03

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To: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>

    On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:08:17AM -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
    >
    > WTF are these morons? Bcc'ing the FreeBSD Stable list with SPAM,
    > UCE, etc. seems to me to be in terribly bad taste. I'm putting
    > down my teacup so I can retract my pinkie and make a fist.

    It's an announcement of something that they're doing to help the project.
    While perhaps this should have been kept to -announce, I'm happy to see it.

    Ceri

    > Delivered-To: kudzu@tenebras.com
    > Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
    > From: "osdisc.com sales dept" <sales@osdisc.com>
    > Organization: osdisc.com
    > To: sales@osdisc.com
    > Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:10:45 -0600
    > User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3
    > Message-Id: <200309201610.45506.sales@osdisc.com>
    > X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 05:21:33 -0700
    > Subject: OSDisc.com donating 10% to FreeBSD Foundation
    > List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable>
    > List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
    >
    > For those of you who would like to support FreeBSD but can't afford the
    > more expensive official sets, OSDisc.com is selling it for $4.95. 10% of
    > the profits will be donated to the FreeBSD Foundation.
    >
    > http://www.osdisc.com/
    > http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/donations.html
    > http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/bsd/freebsd 

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