NDN(2): Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-25 Thread Post Office
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Re: NDN(2): Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 03:53:48PM -0600, Post Office wrote: Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.) Hey - this is _really_ clever - it's noticed the NDN bit and added a count so it can keep track of how many times it goes round the mail

Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-25 Thread renfro
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 04:10:01PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: What I'm wondering is if we could make arrangements with them for something that would involve us paying for some of the CDs so we'd have more. At LinuxWorld, we really did not have

Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-25 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 02:49:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a related note, is my count off, or do we really only *need* to give out 2 CDs for most architectures? Granted, having source and contrib CDs on hand is nice and/or politically correct, but are they really necessary as

Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-25 Thread Chris Lawrence
On May 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a related note, is my count off, or do we really only *need* to give out 2 CDs for most architectures? Granted, having source and contrib CDs on hand is nice and/or politically correct, but are they really necessary as freebies? The complete Debian

Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
Adrian Bridgett wrote: How about having a donation box. Debian is a registered charity after all. With a suggested donation of a couple of dollars? I appreciate that this might be against the freebie policy, but would serve three purposes: a) disuade people who just pick it up because it's

Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-24 Thread Chris Lawrence
On May 24, Joey Hess wrote: (That money is still here with me. I've tried twice now to get someone from SPI tell me where to mail it, with no luck. What's up with the SPI treasurer?) I dunno (I know I saw something about finding a replacement on the SPI site or something). I sent a donation

NDN: Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-24 Thread Post Office
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Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-23 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:24:59AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you say then that paying for a big booth is NOT worth a lot of money but paying for a big enough stack of CDs that people who want them can have them is? Between linux central and cheap bytes the debian booths at ALS

Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-23 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 04:10:01PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: [snip] Yes, but we tend to run out quickly, too quickly. A bit of reference, CD's (usually a CD sells for about US$2, they cost US$.43 to make last time I checked---for a run of 1000), well their donations are pretty significant.