Re: Not wanting to throw a wrench in things

>>I believe that there should be recognition for the work that people
>>do to help support the project, but I don't think that we need the
>>sponsored banners to do so. I think a sponsors page is enough.
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>There are over 200 mirror providers who are all entitled to a banner.
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Who don't get one a banner... so how is this any different and no
they aren't "entitled".

>Adding them or even 25% or so to a single page would be a pita.
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Put the banner on the mirror page. Or again have a sponsors
page that has a category:

Internet Resource Providers:
Mirrors: USA, France ...
Relays: ...
etc...

>I have been toying with the idea of adding some SSI code to the footer
>of the new site, and allowing mirrors to enable SSI and include a
>non-mirrored file containing their name - resulting in something like:
>"Mirror sponsored by: XYZ Widget Corp".
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Ick. I personally wouldn't like that. Why not just allow
them to use the footer directive in Apache if they choose?

>That of course, doesn't help the FTP mirrors...
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Have their name under the link for the mirror on the mirror
page.

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>>Third: Archives again
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>>I know that the person that did the aspseek work for the search engine
>>did a LOT of work but I think we should let google handle our
>>searching.
>>We already do this on techdocs. We also may want to consider this for
>>straight docs.
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>It looks naff imho (or can you know re-skin the results?).
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Well we could if we used their API. I might be able to get
special permission to get a greater search quota if we did
that.

Although... in this instance I don't think the "look" is relevant.
Google is a huge brand and their search engine is better than
anything we are going to come up with.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>Regards, Dave.
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