Re: Intro - Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, and more

[Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>]

Norbert Veber <nveber@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:09:59AM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
> >         The Debian mailing lists accept commercial advertising for
> >         payment. The fee for advertisments is a donation of USD 1000
> >         or more to "Software in the Public Interest" (SPI). One
> >         donation per advertisement, please. If you prefer to pay in
> >         arrears, simply post your advertisement to the list, and the
> >         list operator will bill you USD 1999. The list operator will
> >         donate this amount, minus the expense of collecting it, to
> >         SPI. Please note that the lists are distributed automatically
> >         -- messages are generally not read or checked in any way
> >         before they are distributed.
> > 
> > http://www.spi-inc.org/donations
> 
> Has debian ever received a penny as a result of sending such messages to
> spammers?  If not, I suggest we stop wasting time with it :)

I doubt that we've ever received money from spammers because of
this policy.  However, I do believe that in at least one instance
SPI was paid in advance for commercial advertising on a Debian
list.
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