[Linux-aus] Linux developer directory: anyone know of one?

[Bret Busby]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, David Lloyd wrote:

> 
> 
> Bret,
> 
> > After seeing your message, I went to the web page, and, still have no 
> > idea where it is located.
> 
> Nor do I...I'm talking about stickycorp.com btw.
> 
> > I thought that perhaps the page could have some functionality that was 
> > limuted by my browser (Mozilla 1.02, running on RH Linux 7.3), so viewed
> 
> It's not just you, I don't think. My Mozilla (1.5 with the Flash and Java
> plugins) doesn't seem to do anything sensible.
> 
> > the source code. No information in that, about the web page developers, 
> > or the company location.
> 
> Same here.
> 
> However, I pose you this question: if YOU were SpamAssassin and given the
> written content of that web-page would you start marking it up? To be
> honest I certainly would.
> 
> I'm gettting this horrid suspicion we're both talking about spam on
> linux-aus ;-(
> 
> 
> DSL
> 

That hadn't occurred to me. Probably my naivety.

In looking at the text on the web page, in the context of your 
appraisal, and, thinking about it a bit more, I believe that it may or 
may not be a spammy thing.

The second sentence appears to indicate that whatever the product is, it 
might (?) be a thing to analyse marketing effectiveness, like one of 
those things that is used by Amazon (if they still use it), where an 
affiliate has a clickable link, where a customer, for example, goes to 
your web page, and, from there, follows a link to the Amazon web site, 
where the customer buys (for example) a copy of the Complete Oxford 
Dictionary, fruit bat leather edition, with Tantalum edging on the 
pages, at 12,000GBP, and the path has been followed by the Amazon 
tracking software, so that you get the commission, as the referring web 
site, for the sale.

Thus, the product could (?) be some kind of marketing path analysis 
tool.

However, whether a product exists, is another question.

On the web page, is "ConnectCode TM", as in, a trademarked product, 
ConnectCode. But, a mouseover of ConnectCode, provides no information 
about either any Trademark registration ("Trademark registered to Monty 
Python, 2025", etc), or, any product details ("ConnectCode - a product 
that connects one line of code to another" :) ).

Given the message that was first posted, and, the nature of the web 
page, I wonder (also, with the use of the .com domain, and no ACN or 
ARBN, included on the web page, which I would expect, for an Australian 
company or registered business), what exactly, exists, if anything.

Using www.whois.net, I found that the domain name is registered to the 
poster of the message, Graham Lauren, (and, NOT a company name or 
business name), in Bondi, NSW. And, the address could be a residential 
flat.

Overall, it appears to me, to be a person, who has registered a domain 
name, and set up a web page (not very well), to advertise a marketing 
product that has (apparently) been Trademarked, but which product 
doesn't yet exist -

"
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Graham Lauren wrote:
> I'm seeking a developer to build a Linux database-backed web site. 
"

Does that perhaps sound like what the "ConnectCode TM", might be 
intended to be?

A domain name registered to indicate a company, with a business (?) that 
is not registered, with a (hastily created) web page that advertises a 
product that, as mentioned, smells like spam, with a trademarked (with 
no details of any trademark) name (and no details of a product to which 
the name applies), of a product, which is apparently yet to created?

As you said, David, "hmmm..."

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of 
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams, 
  published by Pan Books, 1992 
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