From evangelist@aladdinsys.com Thu Dec 6 14:10:14 2001 >From jeff Thu Dec 6 14:10:14 2001 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mouse.jeffcovey.net (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) with ESMTP id fB6JA5d2017687 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:10:13 -0500 Received: from jeffcovey.net [209.150.104.78] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.3) for jeff@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 06 Dec 2001 14:10:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from wormwood.pobox.com (wormwood.pobox.com [208.210.125.20]) by jeffcovey.net (8.12.1/8.12.1/Debian -2) with ESMTP id fB6J5Rsc011410 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:05:27 -0500 Received: from mail.freshmeat.net (freshmeat.net [64.28.67.35]) by wormwood.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6D772577 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:05:26 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail.freshmeat.net (Postfix) id ABA7783220; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:54:25 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: jeff.covey@freshmeat.net Received: from aladdinsys.com (aladdin165.aladdinsys.com [216.52.26.165]) by mail.freshmeat.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 43A2D83214 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:54:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:02:33 -0800 From: "StuffIt Web Evengelist" Message-ID: To: jeff.covey@freshmeat.net Subject: Link Update Request X-Mailer: eMerge 1.65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SpamBouncer: 1.02 (3/19/00) X-SBRule: Spam Mailer/Mass Mailer X-SBClass: Spam Status: RO Content-Length: 2239 Lines: 58 Hello there, During a recent surf of your site, http://freshmeat.net/, we noticed that at the following URL(s): http://freshmeat.net/browse/222/ http://freshmeat.net/browse/201/?offset=2160 http://freshmeat.net/browse/201/?filter=42 http://freshmeat.net/browse/11/?filter=42 http://freshmeat.net/browse/217/ ...you offer users help on how to handle downloaded files and you recommend rarsoft.com to handle downloaded files such as .zip, .rar, etc. We'd like you to consider including a link to StuffIt, or even replacing your existing recommendations with one for StuffIt. Why? Because: The competitors are not "free", but shareware, meaning your users will get a nagged to purchase every single time they download a file from the Internet. With StuffIt, unregistered users are only nagged when they create archives, NEVER when they open them. StuffIt is the only product available on all the platforms your users may use. (Available for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris.) StuffIt handles more formats than any competing product and is the only product which handles the popular .sit format, which means your users have a better chance of accessing a file with StuffIt than with any other utility. As the number one compression utility in the retail channel for Windows, StuffIt has proven itself as the compression utility of choice where it counts, on the street. So do your users a favor and refer them to StuffIt , in your FAQ's, and on any pages that offer .zip, .sit, or other supported file types for download. If that sounds good, but you're wondering what might be in it for you? We have an answer! If you respond to this email to let us know that you have added a link to StuffIt to your web site, we will gladly offer you a choice of a free registered copy of StuffIt in any platform you would like - OR - a free t-shirt (black) that says ".sit happens!". (T-shirts are in limited supply so act quickly if you want one!) Please let us know if you have any questions and especially if you'd like to collect on some free software or logoware. Sincerely, Eric Kopf StuffIt Web Evangelist