Ubuntu # 2 on the 12 mnth list at distrowatch!

[Rob Sharp]

Yep, I'm a sucker for those links so I clicked through. Then I noticed
that the origin of Ubuntu is the Isle of Man... Am I missing something?

Rob.

(Never knowingly under snow)

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 11:59 +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Senectus . wrote:
> 
> Hello Senectus,
> 
> > Congrats guys/girls.. we're number two for the last 12 months (even
> > though we're not even 12 months old!!).
> 
> The secret to posting emails like this is also to entice people to
> click-through themselves from their IP and have a look... ;-)
> 
>   Hey everyone, CLICK HERE!!! :
> 
>     http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu
> 
>   and _then_ see how high Ubuntu is in the Distrowatch rankings:
> 
>     http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
> 
> People are suckers for clicking when presented with an underlined URL.  
> Slashdot is proof of this; ...so, if you get this on the frontpage of
> /. you should be able to boost the ranking by about 50,000 hits.
> 
> "Resourcefulness."
> 
> 	-Paul
> -- 
> It sometimes snows here.  London, GB
> 
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Rob Sharp

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