From martin.p.burns@uk.pwcglobal.com Thu Aug 1 11:13:30 2002 From: martin.p.burns@uk.pwcglobal.com (martin.p.burns@uk.pwcglobal.com) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:13:30 +0100 Subject: [Marketing] Updated moving page Message-ID: Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers -------------------- Start of message text -------------------- Using Adrian's image for no better reasons than it doesn't need recutting to jpeg, and it's not on an *eo box at the moment. Tidied the code, and took some of the fat out of it in terms of spaces/tabs. Changed the contact address to info@eo as suggested. If everyone's happy with this, can we get it over to Ron? Ta --------------------- End of message text -------------------- This e-mail is sent by the above named in their individual, non-business capacity and is not on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers. 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From webguru@vsnl.net Thu Aug 1 11:20:13 2002 From: webguru@vsnl.net (Madhu Menon) Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 15:50:13 +0530 Subject: [Marketing] Updated moving page In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020801155003.028feea8@203.197.12.4> At 03:43 PM 01-08-02, martin.p.burns@uk.pwcglobal.com wrote: >If everyone's happy with this, can we get it over to Ron? ASAP. We're not looking for flawless execution. "Good enough" is good enough. M From marlene@members.evolt.org Thu Aug 1 19:27:13 2002 From: marlene@members.evolt.org (Marlene Bruce) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:27:13 -0700 Subject: [Marketing] Updated moving page In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for doing all the tweaks, Martin. Just one thing: >Changed the contact address to info@eo as suggested. If someone uses it, won't it just bounce during the move? Seems kinda pointless if that's the case. Cheers, Marlene From joel@spinhead.com Fri Aug 2 01:59:30 2002 From: joel@spinhead.com (Joel Canfield) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 17:59:30 -0700 Subject: [Marketing] RE: [Theforum] ADMIN: Downtime will disrupt meo email accounts Message-ID: -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > I am still waiting on the emp page we are going to use. > > Ron D. Last I heard was Martin saying this: >Looks like you'll get that soonish. Saw some recommended changes, but after neuro modified my original, we played with horsey pictures, then it was allegedly sent to marketing for text touchup. Anyone know where it is now? joel From john@gn.apc.org Mon Aug 12 00:38:10 2002 From: john@gn.apc.org (John Handelaar) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:38:10 +0100 Subject: [Marketing] Mopping up the stragglers Message-ID: Apologies to anyone who (like me) is on all 5 of these :-) Should this work correctly, send your collective vibes of goodwill towards Dean and Ron, who have contributed no small chunk of their weekends to the cause of getting Mailman running again today. Last I checked we were having a few issues with the relays and working around the problem, partly by throttling sendmail and partly by using a temporary replacement relay. Oh, and if anyone knows where Sendmail is hiding its internal config which was trying to reverse- lookup to ns1.stark despite the main settings being fixed, we'd love to find out :-) ------------------------------------------ John Handelaar T +44 20 8933 1494 M +44 7930 681789 F +44 870 169 7657 E john@userfrenzy.com ------------------------------------------ From dmah@members.evolt.org Mon Aug 12 01:02:02 2002 From: dmah@members.evolt.org (Dean Mah) Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 19:02:02 -0500 Subject: [Marketing] Re: [thechat] Mopping up the stragglers In-Reply-To: ; from john@gn.apc.org on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:38:10AM +0100 References: Message-ID: <20020811190202.A866@leo.evolt.org> I actually figured this out. The f2o.org box is down and ns1.starkmedia.com is the secondary mail exchanger for f2o which is not receiving connections. Dean On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:38:10AM +0100, John Handelaar wrote: > Oh, and if anyone knows where Sendmail is hiding its internal config > which was trying to reverse- lookup to ns1.stark despite the main > settings being fixed, we'd love to find out :-) From lists@mantruc.com Mon Aug 12 15:44:49 2002 From: lists@mantruc.com (javier velasco) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:44:49 -0400 Subject: [Marketing] amazon links Message-ID: <3D57C9E1.B5C5986E@mantruc.com> hi all: i recenlty submitted a book review, at te end of the article, there are 3 book covers, which i'd like to link to amazon through our affiliate program from the last time we discussed this issue, i believe it can only be done thorugh a form in the amazon website (altering the URL manually breaks the deal with amazon and then we loose the money). i don't have password for it. how can we manage this? thanks javier From marlene@members.evolt.org Mon Aug 12 17:32:15 2002 From: marlene@members.evolt.org (Marlene Bruce) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 09:32:15 -0700 Subject: [Marketing] amazon links In-Reply-To: <3D57C9E1.B5C5986E@mantruc.com> References: <3D57C9E1.B5C5986E@mantruc.com> Message-ID: >book covers, which i'd like to link to amazon through our affiliate >program Hi Javier, Madhu's created a URL generator for us. You can find it at: http://members.evolt.org/madhu/amazon.htm Madhu described how to use it thus: --- Enter any damn Amazon URL you want, as long as it's of a real item (not limited to books) and not a search results page or something like that. So the Glasshaus usability book URL could be like this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904151035/qid%3D1027107157/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-5101245-6306530 Go ahead, put that all in. Enter an associates ID (it defaults to the evolt.org one - usability and all that) and out pops a usable associates ID URL, which also happens to bypass the "similar items" page and goes directly to the item description page. So the above URL becomes: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904151035/ref=nosim/evoltorg02-20 --- Hope that helps, Marlene From lists@mantruc.com Mon Aug 12 17:39:37 2002 From: lists@mantruc.com (javier velasco) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:39:37 -0400 Subject: [Marketing] amazon links References: <3D57C9E1.B5C5986E@mantruc.com> Message-ID: <3D57E4C9.E1FA302D@mantruc.com> Marlene Bruce wrote: > > >book covers, which i'd like to link to amazon through our affiliate > >program > > Hi Javier, > > Madhu's created a URL generator for us. You can find it at: > > http://members.evolt.org/madhu/amazon.htm nice, thanks From lists@mantruc.com Mon Aug 12 19:43:04 2002 From: lists@mantruc.com (javier velasco) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:43:04 -0400 Subject: [Marketing] amazon links References: <3D57C9E1.B5C5986E@mantruc.com> Message-ID: <3D5801B8.D70C7B85@mantruc.com> Marlene Bruce wrote: > > >book covers, which i'd like to link to amazon through our affiliate > >program > > Hi Javier, > > Madhu's created a URL generator for us. You can find it at: > > http://members.evolt.org/madhu/amazon.htm OK, i've added the links let's hope we sell some books from this page thanks From rwd@csi1st.net Thu Aug 15 16:55:03 2002 From: rwd@csi1st.net (Ron Dorman) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:55:03 -0400 Subject: [Marketing] Short Down Time for Upgrade Message-ID: <3D5BCED7.6000500@csi1st.net> Apologies for all the cross posts, but don't know a better way to get this to everyone. Please keep all responses on the theforum. We will be doing a backbone router upgrade starting at midnight on Saturday, Aug 17. With this upgrade there should not be any downtime, but possibility of 30-60 minute outage exists. We also have some new electrical circuits completed in the computer room that I would like to get the evolt.org servers on. This will definitely cause 20-30 minute outage as we need to shutdown the servers, move them about 10 feet, plug them into the new circuits and reboot everything. During the router upgrade seems to be a good time to move the evolt.org servers to the new circuits. 1) a) What says everyone about a definite 30 minute downtime for the changes/upgrades b) or a possible downtime without moving the servers to the new circuits? 2) Will Dean, Matt, John or anyone in sysadmin be available if there are problems during reboot if we take option 1a? 3) Once we know which option we want to take, we need to get an announcement out quick. Sorry for the short notice, I was informed of the need to upgrade the backbone router this morning and it could not be put off for another week for better notification. Ron D. From rwd@csi1st.net Sun Aug 18 07:28:30 2002 From: rwd@csi1st.net (Ron Dorman) Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 02:28:30 -0400 Subject: [Marketing] Test #1, Ignore Message-ID: <3D5F3E8E.4080306@csi1st.net> testing Ron D. From lists@mantruc.com Thu Aug 22 19:33:44 2002 From: lists@mantruc.com (javier velasco) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:33:44 -0400 Subject: [Marketing] donation campaign Message-ID: <3D652E88.770745B1@mantruc.com> hi folks: we have an temporary account to recieve donations, so now it's our turn to write a message for our members in order to motivate them to donate money for evolt.org, ideally on a regular basis. my guess is that the strongest argument is to ask how much evolt.org is worth to each one, and how many times it has been an important help on their careers. We were discussing this before we focused on the move, so just so we don't start over from scratch... http://lists.evolt.org/marketingarchive/2002-June/000132.html http://lists.evolt.org/marketingarchive/2002-June/000133.html thanks javier