X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C5DD1B85F for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:08:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00622-09 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 05:07:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from ngate.rdw.ru (mail.rdw.ru [195.42.172.4]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7876FD1B48D for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 05:07:39 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail 12764 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2004 09:07:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rdw.ru) (192.168.0.57) by ngate.rdw.ru with SMTP; 15 Jan 2004 09:07:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 32461 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2004 09:02:00 -0000 Received: from ppp01.rdw.ru (HELO cs.msu.su) ([192.168.0.7]) (envelope-sender ) by rdw.ru (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 15 Jan 2004 09:01:59 -0000 Message-ID: <40065859.9070909@cs.msu.su> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:07:37 +0300 From: Alexey Borzov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Page Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Animated advertisement banners References: <03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B8720462@mail.vale-housing.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B8720462@mail.vale-housing.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200401/84 X-Sequence-Number: 3323 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