Re: Google ads gripe

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Dave Page wrote:

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org]
> Sent: Tue 10/5/2004 7:33 PM
> To: Bruce Momjian
> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; Dave Page; PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Google ads gripe
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>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>> I kind of like the ads myself. It shows project activity.
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>> IMHO, it not only shows project activity, but it shows commercial
>> involvement in the sense of support tools ...
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> Don't misunderstand me, I'm not against commercial companies advertising their products and services on the websites - I agree, I think it's a good thing. I just don't think the community projects should get zero exposure, which is effectively whats happening now. We need to strike a balance imho so that users can see easily that they have both commercial and FOSS options, and not have to figure out what pgFoundry or GBorg are just to find an alternative.
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> What about adding the old project ads into the remaining
> ads.postgresql.org set?

They are supposed to be ... I re-wrote the code so that all available
banners should be being displayed ... if they aren't, please let me know
and I'll re-check my code, but last I checked, I had the phpPgAds banner
up on the screen ...

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