Re: http://www.counterpunch.org/

2004-12-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Jolanta Piorko wrote: What the fuck is going on; is it your url? - http://www.counterpunch.org/ if not get the fuck out of there If you had actually bothered to read the page that was present on www.counterpunch.org instead of randomly e-mailing us, you would have realized

Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
I received the following message from someone at Google: Google is interested in advertising on debian.org. I realize your site currently isn't running any advertising, however what we're proposing is much different, and complimentary to your sites goal. Normally, I reply to advertising

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.13.1808 +0100]: Normally, I reply to advertising requests on debian.org with a polite no. However, given that google ads are widely considered different to normal ads, and might even enhance a web site, I thought

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:08:41PM +, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: I received the following message from someone at Google: Google is interested in advertising on debian.org. I realize your site currently isn't running any advertising, however what we're proposing

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.13.1814 +0100]: What's in it for us? If it's pay-per-click... I don't think it is worth the real estate as visitors of debian.org probably just plain out ignore ads. If it's pay-per-view, then by all means... more money is always good. at

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 17:08 +, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: I received the following message from someone at Google: Google is interested in advertising on debian.org. I realize your site currently isn't running any advertising, however what we're proposing is much

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-13 17:08]: Normally, I reply to advertising requests on debian.org with a polite no. However, given that google ads are widely considered different to normal ads, and might even enhance a web site, I thought I'd ask on

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: I received the following message from someone at Google: Google is interested in advertising on debian.org. I realize your site currently isn't running any advertising, however what we're proposing is much different, and complimentary to

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.13.1827 +0100]: Michael Banck pointed out on IRC that I should explain what google ads actually are. The basic idea behind google ads is that you don't simply show random ads, but ads which fit in very well with

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Amaya
martin f krafft wrote: at the same time, i must add that i do not think we should allow them. after all, why should google get to decide what might be related? It may point clueless users in the right dueling banjos direction :) -- .''`. And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: I received the following message from someone at Google: Google is interested in advertising on debian.org. I realize your site currently isn't running any advertising, however what we're proposing is much different, and complimentary to

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Martin Schulze
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.13.1808 +0100]: Normally, I reply to advertising requests on debian.org with a polite no. However, given that google ads are widely considered different to normal ads, and might even

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I received the following message from someone at Google: Google is interested in advertising on debian.org. I realize your site currently isn't running any advertising, however what we're proposing is much different, and

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: * Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-13 17:08]: Normally, I reply to advertising requests on debian.org with a polite no. However, given that google ads are widely considered different to normal ads, and

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Honestly, I cannot imagine a reason, why the Debian projects should turn their web pages into commercial web pages by adding Google ads to them. It's not clear to me that having ads would make them 'commercial'. This would be something that would

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: I object. Not by any price we have to pay (and turning www.debian.org into a commercial page *is* a high price, which could also result in losing some of our sponsors who provide a mirror of the pages) Yeah, I think this are two

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Stephen Frost wrote: It's not clear to me that having ads would make them 'commercial'. This would be something that would have to be run by the appropriate people at SPI. I doubt tbm would have brought it up if it would cause a problem for the non-profit status of SPI. If you seek to

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Good evening Martin and *, If I go to http://www.google.com/linux there was many times I have found one of the adds after my search results are very useful and it was a 100% hit ! I have found Distributors of Specialhardware supported by linux an many things else. I use Google-Adds which search

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Chris Waters
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:08:41PM +, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: Normally, I reply to advertising requests on debian.org with a polite no. However, given that google ads are widely considered different to normal ads, and might even enhance a web site, I thought I'd

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Kim
Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: I received the following message from someone at Google: Google is interested in advertising on debian.org. I realize your site currently isn't running any advertising, however what we're proposing is much different, and complimentary to your

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Kim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: First of all I think it is a bad idear based on the fact that it will make debian appear commercial. It will look like debian has business relations with what ever those ads represents. I disagree. There are ads on postgresql.org and I certainly don't think

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-12-13 17:08:41 + Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google has already plagued debian lists (both public and private) terribly with their Orkut and GMail services. At best, they are no Google did? Really? I

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michelle Konzack: If I go to http://www.google.com/linux there was many times I have found one of the adds after my search results are very useful and it was a 100% hit ! If I search for Debian Linux on Google, a Microsoft ad is displayed next to the results. Maybe this is useful, but I

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-12-13 21:22:31, schrieb Florian Weimer: I think it's disappointing. If this development continues, the only ad-free space on the web will be Microsoft's web site, a few obscure government sites, and lots of orphaned web pages which haven't been updated for years. (For most users,

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-12-13 21:30:02, schrieb martin f krafft: http://www.google.de/search?as_q=debian%20linux the first link is the bring out the facts lie-page by m$. OK, but you have used the normal GOOGLE search and not tried the Linux-Search-Page from GOOGLE. This makes the difference... Greetings

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.13.2129 +0100]: ...because you use mozilla with the adblock extension :-) no, i do not. apart, i don't think adblock does this for google. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Joey Hess
Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: I object. Not by any price we have to pay (and turning www.debian.org into a commercial page *is* a high price, which could also result in losing some of our sponsors who provide a mirror of the pages)

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:08:41PM +, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: I received the following message from someone at Google: Google is interested in advertising on debian.org. I realize your site currently isn't running any advertising, however what we're proposing

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: I object. Not by any price we have to pay (and turning www.debian.org into a commercial page *is* a high price, which could also result in losing some of our sponsors who provide a mirror of the pages) Thanks Joey, couldn't

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041213 19:30]: Stephen Frost wrote: It's not clear to me that having ads would make them 'commercial'. This would be something that would have to be run by the appropriate people at SPI. I doubt tbm would have brought it up if it would cause a

RE: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Pete van der Spoel
-Original Message- From: Andreas Barth To: debian-project@lists.debian.org Sent: 12/13/04 11:17 PM Subject: Re: Google ads on debian.org * Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041213 19:30]: Stephen Frost wrote: It's not clear to me that having ads would make them 'commercial'. This

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041213 21:40]: http://www.google.de/search?as_q=debian%20linux the first link is the bring out the facts lie-page by m$. OK, but you have used the normal GOOGLE search and not tried the Linux-Search-Page from GOOGLE. This makes the difference... No,

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Lars H. Beuse
On Monday 13 December 2004 21:37, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2004-12-13 21:22:31, schrieb Florian Weimer: I think it's disappointing. If this development continues, the only ad-free space on the web will be Microsoft's web site, a few obscure government sites, and lots of orphaned web

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041213 18:53]: Maybe the next offer ist to place ads to the head or footer of each distributed mail on our list server? And maybe we can consider each suggestion on a case-by-case basis and make a decision on a case-by-case basis. Or maybe we should just

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041213 18:14]: more money is always good. AFAIK Debian has more money, than we can (usefully) spend (at our current rate). I think that was pointed out just a feek weeks ago in the donate for e-Mail account discussion. I startet to use Debian, because it

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-13 17:08]: I received the following message from someone at Google: [...] Normally, I reply to advertising requests on debian.org with a polite no. However, given that google ads are widely considered different to normal

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-13 18:34]: Is there a way for us to get a feel what Google would consider relevant? E.g. a page at google.com which would show us some of the ads to give us a general feel of how good their selection is? This is getting a bit off-topic now. I was

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-12-13 19:38:18 + Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, MJ Ray wrote: Google has already plagued debian lists (both public and private) terribly with their Orkut and GMail services. At best, they are no Google did? Really? I could see a lot of

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: I object. Not by any price we have to pay (and turning www.debian.org into a commercial page *is* a high price, which could also result in losing some of our

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Alexander Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [041213 18:14]: more money is always good. AFAIK Debian has more money, than we can (usefully) spend (at our current rate). I think that was pointed out just a feek weeks ago in the donate for e-Mail

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Stephen Frost: I disagree. There are ads on postgresql.org and I certainly don't think they make it look like Postgresql is commercial. I think it's disappointing. If this development continues, the only ad-free space on the web will be

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Lars H. Beuse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Those Google Ads are look the way they do. cause they're made for a special target group. So that's just quit a good marketing idea (not new). If you want you could say thats also way to make people think Google is different, they're serious,

Re: Google ads on debian.org

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Pete van der Spoel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041213 19:30]: I personally don't see the issues so problematic as you do. But: A lot of (valuable) project members disagree, and, frankly speaking, keeping you (and some other people happy) is much more