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From: Alexey Borzov <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Animated advertisement banners
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:07:37 +0300
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Hi!

Dave Page wrote:
>>>Sure if someone comes up with some new ones.
>>
>>Why not just use text links instead of banners?
> 
> Because we offer the banner ads for a number of reasons. The ones on the
> left are given free to mirror providers by way of thanks, and sold to
> anyone else with an appropriate company or product to raise funds. The
> ads on the right are given freely to any open source project related to
> PostgreSQL in some way.

I understand why they are there, but I want to reiterate: the same ads can be 
given in text blocks and they won't make the site look *this* unprofessional.

As for the mirrors, the approach taken by PHP[1], where the image is shown on 
the appropriate mirror seems more reasonable.

[1] http://www.php.net/mirroring.php

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