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Re: Repeat of Offer to Host Linux-il
Hi Oori,
You are correct, but I made no claim to altruism in the first place. You are also
correct to point out that it could be that a commercial site will be motivated
to give you better service than a voluntary or educational site. If others in
this group feel that they want to find a site that has no commercial affiliation
then you can reject my offer - and stay with a "sunsite" or other "non-commercial"
academic site. :-).
You choose - I am at your service.
- yba
> From bushwack.gilo.jlm.k12.il!oori Thu Jun 27 11:10:24 1996
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 11:18:39 +0200 (IST)
> From: Oori Hasson <oori@bushwack.gilo.jlm.k12.il>
> To: Jonathan Ben-Avraham <benavrhm@tcltek.co.il>
> cc: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
> Subject: Re: Repeat of Offer to Host Linux-il
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> It seems to me any commercial organisation will profit
> from hosting the Israeli Linux Users Group pages.
>
> 1) It will show its capabilities as a Hoster of web pages, and may get
> more customers once people see it already hosts pages (The "Winnowing"
> effect)
>
> 2) Because that site will "earn" visitors that wouldn't have visited it
> otherwise, the link from the Linux pagges to the hosting
> site will benefit it in attracting people to its commercial aspects.
>
>
> Hence, while holding the highest respect to your offer, I think it's in
> your best interest to do it, and there's no altruism involved.
>
> I won't call your bluff since I'm sure it's in your best interest
> to host us as well as possible.
> Oori.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Jun 1996, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear Friends,
> > I repeat my offer to serve as a Web/ftp/archive/mail site for Linux-il.
> > TclTek will pay all costs associated with the domain name and will provide
> > room on the TclTek server at no cost. To sweeten the offer (it's not
> > sweet enough already?) I will do *some* of the work myself, but I'll need
> > help. I don't have time to do all of it.
> >
> > Call my bluff - I dare you!
> >
> > - yba
> >
> > TclTek Ltd. "Don't laugh, we're serious!" ~. .~
> > =}----------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------{=
> > - benavrhm@tcltek.co.il - tel: +972.52.670.353, http://www.tcltek.co.il -
> >
>
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