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List your software with new feature-based search engine
Dear Software Manufacturer:
We can help you make it much easier to promote your software on the Internet.
Your company is invited to list its software products at no charge on BigSoftE, the first Internet Software Search Engine. Launching this month, Bigsofte provides detailed product information to those searching on the BigSoftE.com site as well as on the most popular Internet IT and Search portals. More than 6000 software companies have responded to BigSoftE including industry leaders such as Computer Associates, Hitachi, Informix, and Intuit.
Please take just a few moments to learn more about BigSoftE and this time-sensitive offer. Read our FAQs, take a tour of the step-by-step listing process, and sign up to list your products today at http://www.bigsofte.com/vendors/index.cfm?id=42700153
Hurry! BigSoftE will launch in just a few weeks. Respond by MARCH 31st to ensure extra exposure for your company and products during our launch promotions. Sign up now, or take a tour of BigSoftE by visiting http://www.bigsofte.com/vendors/index.cfm?id=42700153
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Re: List your software with new feature-based search engine
Posted by Paul <yd...@yahoo.com>.
lol....
Spamming a technical list seems less than prudent, doesn't it?
Jeez, I mean, just one anti-social teenager can make nasty packages
like the "I Love You" virus.... what could several thousand experienced
hackers with literally hundreds (minimally) of commercial-grade servers
at their whim do if they were sufficiently antagonized?
My, that's an ugly thought.
Good thing none of *us* are that grumpy, eh? =o)
Then again, we as a group have no history at all at cooperative effort.
Unless you want to count that open-source thing.....
;o]
--- "Randal L. Schwartz" <me...@stonehenge.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "BigSofte" == BigSofte Vendor Services
> <ve...@bigsofte.com> writes:
>
> BigSofte> Dear Software Manufacturer:
>
> I didn't know people still "manufacture" software. I thought
> only marketing "manufactured" things.
>
> BigSofte> We can help you make it much easier to promote your
> software
> BigSofte> on the Internet.
>
> Yeah, that's already so terribly difficult. I'm glad you're here to
> help me! Otherwise, I'd be limited to putting up a website, or maybe
> starting a mailing list, or maybe having papers presented at
> conferences, or submitting entries to Freshmeat, or maybe writing
> books or columns, or possibly even word-of-mouth, or making sure my
> website is parseable by Google, because that's where all my friends
> use for searching. Boy, I'm glad there's YET ANOTHER PROMOTION
> MECHANISM! Lemme guess... it consists of spamming unrelated mailing
> lists! Did I get it right?
>
> "List your software with new feature-based search engine"
>
> I think I'd rather list with a bug-based search engine, thank you.
>
> --
> Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503
> 777 0095
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Re: List your software with new feature-based search engine
Posted by "Randal L. Schwartz" <me...@stonehenge.com>.
>>>>> "BigSofte" == BigSofte Vendor Services <ve...@bigsofte.com> writes:
BigSofte> Dear Software Manufacturer:
I didn't know people still "manufacture" software. I thought
only marketing "manufactured" things.
BigSofte> We can help you make it much easier to promote your software
BigSofte> on the Internet.
Yeah, that's already so terribly difficult. I'm glad you're here to
help me! Otherwise, I'd be limited to putting up a website, or maybe
starting a mailing list, or maybe having papers presented at
conferences, or submitting entries to Freshmeat, or maybe writing
books or columns, or possibly even word-of-mouth, or making sure my
website is parseable by Google, because that's where all my friends
use for searching. Boy, I'm glad there's YET ANOTHER PROMOTION
MECHANISM! Lemme guess... it consists of spamming unrelated mailing
lists! Did I get it right?
"List your software with new feature-based search engine"
I think I'd rather list with a bug-based search engine, thank you.
--
Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095
<me...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>
Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.
See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
Re: List your software with new feature-based search engine
Posted by Owen Boyle <ob...@bourse.ch>.
Dear BigSofte,
You must have read my mind! I do *indeed* have a software product which
I would love to have your help in marketing!!!
It is called ListGuard-2.0 and is an intelligent agent which uses
heuristic pattern matching to detect spam mails and advertising and
purge them from mailing lists and other public forums.
I hope to sell it to the maintainers of public mailing lists so they can
keep their lists free of unsolicited junk mails. Could you help me sell
it?
Rgds,
Owen Boyle.
Re: List your software with new feature-based search engine
Posted by Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>.
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Stas Bekman wrote:
>
> > > [1] I do the same thing for the lists at perl.org and for whatever
> > > reason the modperl lists gets about the same amount or more spam
> > > than the perl.org lists combined.
> >
> > I suppose that's because of the multiply mirrors of the perl.apache.org,
> > which includes the mod_perl list address twice (at index.html and
> > guide/help.html). I don't think this is a situation with perl.org lists.
> >
> > Do you want me to make it harder for crawlers to grab the address? like
> > should I change it to modperl <at> perl.apache.org?
>
> s/perl\.// if so.
of course
> I usually just provide the subscribe address,
> modperl-subscribe@apache.org.
in fact the /index.html didn't have the posting address in first place and
I have fixed the guide (removed the post address). But we still have a
bunch of pages including it:
grep -lr modperl@apache.org .
./CREDITS.html
./index.html
./dist/README
./dist/apache-modlist.html
./dist/.#apache-modlist.html.1.18
./guide/help.html
./guide/intro.html
./stories/convert/indextemplate.epl
./stories/ColbyChem.txt
./stories/idl-net.txt
./stories/wmboerse.txt
./tuning/index.html
./tuning/mod_perl_performance.html
./tuning/mod_perl_tuning.html
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Re: List your software with new feature-based search engine
Posted by Ask Bjoern Hansen <as...@valueclick.com>.
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Stas Bekman wrote:
> > [1] I do the same thing for the lists at perl.org and for whatever
> > reason the modperl lists gets about the same amount or more spam
> > than the perl.org lists combined.
>
> I suppose that's because of the multiply mirrors of the perl.apache.org,
> which includes the mod_perl list address twice (at index.html and
> guide/help.html). I don't think this is a situation with perl.org lists.
>
> Do you want me to make it harder for crawlers to grab the address? like
> should I change it to modperl <at> perl.apache.org?
s/perl\.// if so.
I usually just provide the subscribe address,
modperl-subscribe@apache.org.
- ask
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Re: List your software with new feature-based search engine
Posted by Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>.
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, BigSofte Vendor Services wrote:
>
> > Dear Software Manufacturer:
>
> @%#@$%&^. I must have made a typo or whatever while going through
> the days spam and postings from non-subscribers. (averaging on a
> handful or three of spams and a few postings from
> non-subscribers)[1].
>
> Sorry.
>
>
> - ask (list foo for the perl.apache.org lists)
>
> [1] I do the same thing for the lists at perl.org and for whatever
> reason the modperl lists gets about the same amount or more spam
> than the perl.org lists combined.
I suppose that's because of the multiply mirrors of the perl.apache.org,
which includes the mod_perl list address twice (at index.html and
guide/help.html). I don't think this is a situation with perl.org lists.
Do you want me to make it harder for crawlers to grab the address? like
should I change it to modperl <at> perl.apache.org?
_____________________________________________________________________
Stas Bekman JAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker
http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide
mailto:stas@stason.org http://apachetoday.com http://logilune.com/
http://singlesheaven.com http://perl.apache.org http://perlmonth.com/
Re: List your software with new feature-based search engine
Posted by Ask Bjoern Hansen <as...@valueclick.com>.
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, BigSofte Vendor Services wrote:
> Dear Software Manufacturer:
@%#@$%&^. I must have made a typo or whatever while going through
the days spam and postings from non-subscribers. (averaging on a
handful or three of spams and a few postings from
non-subscribers)[1].
Sorry.
- ask (list foo for the perl.apache.org lists)
[1] I do the same thing for the lists at perl.org and for whatever
reason the modperl lists gets about the same amount or more spam
than the perl.org lists combined.
--
ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do();