[geeks] Thoughts on mailing list advertising

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:42:28AM +0000, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Bill, sounds fine to me, but would it really generate sufficient advertising 
> fees to pay for a server? (BTW, the latest Linux Journal had several ads for 
> sub-$1K 1U x86 boxes, one as low as  $500, IIRC - just a pointer/heads-up on 
> hardware sources...

No idea if it would raise enough, but it would be a start.  

> I'd toss you a low-end server, but all mine are desktop/minitowers (well 
> over 1U). I have an AXe MB sitting idle (300 MHz, 256K cache), that can go 
> in a 1U case - it has the goofy PCI-bracket (if you have the case ;^)...

One of those was actually ohno.mrbill.net back in 2000.  It worked well
then, but would get swamped by the stuff I run now. :)

Bill

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bill bradford
austin texas