Re: Donations Page

Theo de Raadt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> We sent a donation in last week.  Please add us to your page under our  
> website name and link it to http://www.pokerjesusonline.com

Sorry, but we cannot do that.  Donations do not entitle people to a
reference to anything they want.  We know how google works too, and if
we allow a "donation" to mean "please give us advertising, so that we
rise in google's page rank algorithm, and do not get punished so
badly".  Doing it like that would be business, and our donations are
donations, not business.

I am sorry.

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CVSROOT:        /cvs
Module name:    www
Changes by:     [email protected] 2006/07/01 19:51:22

Modified files:
        .              : donations.html 

Log message:
Grudgingly give two people the URLs they requested, since they appear
to be acceptable.  But in general, for tiny contributions we are going
to have to be increasingly careful that people are not paying us a
"transaction" for an advertising link.  We are not selling links, we
may not!  It must be a contribution/donation/gift!  When we receive a
contribution, we happen to keep a list of "people who we wish to thank",
but this is not the same as giving people exactly the link that they
have asked for!  Giving people URL's to advertising and gambling sites
is specifically NOT what we want to be doing here!

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