Re: Playboy mirror logo?

2004-08-25 Thread James Mitchell
eer / Open Source Evangelist EdgeTech, Inc. 678.910.8017 AIM: jmitchtx - Original Message - From: "Joshua Slive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin Kraemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Apache Infrastructure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 20

Re: Playboy mirror logo?

2004-08-25 Thread Joshua Slive
Please stop copying board on every message. On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, James Mitchell wrote: How do you propose we do that? How do you define "large segment of our users"? My email has nothing to do with your complaint. I am talking purely about the technical issue of people being unable to download t

RE: Playboy mirror logo?

2004-08-25 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> I am talking purely about the technical issue of people being > unable to download the software from mirrors.playboy.com. I > am not talking about the logo/link to playboyenterprises.com. Would a mirrors.playboyenterprises.com domain be less technically problematic? Is that also widely blocked

Re: Playboy mirror logo?

2004-08-26 Thread Ian Holsman
Noel J. Bergman wrote: I am talking purely about the technical issue of people being unable to download the software from mirrors.playboy.com. I am not talking about the logo/link to playboyenterprises.com. Would a mirrors.playboyenterprises.com domain be less technically problematic? Is that al

Re: Playboy mirror logo?

2004-08-26 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:37 PM +1000 Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mirror.au.apache.org or something which just does a round robin on available mirrors in the 'au' region.. that the downloader only sees a 'apache' domain. but this would should be a 'global' change.. not just for

RE: Playboy mirror logo?

2004-08-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ian Holsman wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: >>> I am talking purely about the technical issue of people being >>> unable to download the software from mirrors.playboy.com. I >>> am not talking about the logo/link to playboyenterprises.com. >> Would a mirrors.playboyenterprises.com domain be less t

RE: Playboy mirror logo?

2004-08-27 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 08:16 PM 8/26/2004, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >I'm not quite sure how you interpreted my question to be a demand that >someone change a domain name. However, if they want to be a mirror and *IF* >their domain is widely blocked, thereby rendering the service ineffective, >they might well be willin

RE: Playboy mirror logo?

2004-08-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I'm curious if the people whose firewalls block *.playboy.com and *.playboyenterprises.com are able to access http://216.163.142.135/ at all. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-25 Thread James Mitchell
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Steven Noels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Apache Infrastructure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Daniel Quinlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 7:47 AM Subject: Re: Playboy mirror logo?

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-25 Thread Sam Ruby
James Mitchell wrote: [resend] For the record (and if I wasn't clear before) I am NOT against playboy being a mirror or Apache using the mirror (whether it is being blocked or not). I AM against putting a link and/or image that links from Apache to playboy. Trust me, I've been all over playboy.co

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-25 Thread Joshua Slive
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, James Mitchell wrote: I am begging you!! DO NOT put their logo or link on our (yes, OUR) web site. You can't even imagine what the media will do with this if you do. God help us all. You are exagerating to the extreme. Go to google and count how many media organi

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-25 Thread Steven Noels
On 25 Aug 2004, at 15:53, Sam Ruby wrote: The closest thing I see to that in your email is a suggestion that we let the Eclipse Foundation be the final arbiter in who the Apache Software Foundation will allow to be listed as an official mirror. ... or that the opinions of those who don't run thei

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-25 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Right now we have no real policy with regard to Mirrors; essentially anyone can run a mirror, tell us; we add and they get a logo if they submit one as a small thank you. Legally it is entireyly up to the ASF to choose whether to list a mirror or not. Recently Playboy.com submitted one. It was a

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-25 Thread Shane Curcuru
+1 to 'those that actually do infrastructure' for keeping our mirrors running, including this one, if they want to (I'm for it, if that matters, as long as it's a fast mirror). Hell, +1 for infrastructure for having the patience for this thread! {Exuent all remaining replies to community@ or [E

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-25 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
So let me put in my 5 cents into policy II: -> Any company willing too mirror us can do so and can have their logo+link handled. -> Any submissions meeting the 3 mechanical goals below will be swiftly handled and added. Provided that ->They mirror us faithfully

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-26 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 25 août 04, à 15:53, Sam Ruby a écrit : ...What Jim meant when he said that is that people should STOP saying things like "I am begging you!!" and "God help us all.", and START making concrete suggestions on how the policy itself should change... So how about: a) In principle, onl

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-26 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 25 août 04, à 15:53, Sam Ruby a écrit : ...What Jim meant when he said that is that people should STOP saying things like "I am begging you!!" and "God help us all.", and START making concrete suggestions on how the policy itself should change... So how

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-26 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Vadim Gritsenko wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 25 août 04, à 15:53, Sam Ruby a écrit : ...What Jim meant when he said that is that people should STOP saying things like "I am begging you!!" and "God help us all.", and START making concrete suggestions on how the policy itself sh

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-26 Thread Steven Noels
On 26 Aug 2004, at 15:18, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I completely agree with Vadim. if you don't like to download stuff from "playboy.com" don't. How hard is that? IIUC, the technical issue people are referring to is that the download page (and the dropdown list of servers to download from) won't a

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-26 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Steven Noels wrote: On 26 Aug 2004, at 15:18, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I completely agree with Vadim. if you don't like to download stuff from "playboy.com" don't. How hard is that? IIUC, the technical issue people are referring to is that the download page (and the dropdown list of servers to d

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-27 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Thanks Vadim, I see your points and basically agree - Dirk's proposal to accept all logos/mirrors with possible exceptions (illegal, banned, found offensive by many) sounds easier and certainly good enough. -Bertrand (BTW, I havent found this playboy logo yet - bear with me, just back from long

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-27 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: (BTW, I havent found this playboy logo yet - bear with me, just back from long holidays ;-) Here we go: http://mirrors.playboy.com/icons/playboy.gif ;-) Vadim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> http://mirrors.playboy.com/icons/playboy.gif FWIW, while on-site at IBM, I could not access the mirror, even by IP address. --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-28 Thread Simon Kitching
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 02:01, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > Right now we have no real policy with regard to Mirrors; essentially > anyone can run a mirror, tell us; we add and they get a logo if they > submit one as a small thank you. > > Legally it is entireyly up to the ASF to choose whether to

Re: Policy (Was: Playboy mirror logo?)

2004-08-30 Thread Ted Husted
I suggest we simply drop the logos and hypertext links for all the mirrors. We say that people who want to "give back" to Apache shouldn't care if we put an @author "link" in the source code. (And I agree.) So why not say that mirrors who want to "give back" to Apache shouldn't care if we link