Re: www/supp-tmpl.txt

[Stuart Henderson <stu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-07-28, Ian Darwin <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This seems to have become a link-spam magnet.
>
> Index: supp-tmpl.txt
>===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/www/supp-tmpl.txt,v
> retrieving revision 1.6
> diff -u -p -r1.6 supp-tmpl.txt
> --- supp-tmpl.txt     7 Feb 2005 10:03:23 -0000       1.6
> +++ supp-tmpl.txt     28 Jul 2008 18:41:25 -0000
> @@ -17,7 +17,11 @@
>  #    N Home of the best Acme
>  #    widgets around.
>  #
> -# Please delete these # comment lines before submitting
> +# Do NOT bother sending this in unless your web site's main page clearly 
> shows
> +# that you are able and willing to provide support services for OpenBSD.
> +#
> +# DELETE ALL # COMMENT LINES BEFORE SUBMITTING
> +#
>  # SEND AS PLAIN TEXT IN THE BODY OF YOUR MAIL: NO MIME OR ATTACHMENTS!
>  # Use html character entities (like &egrave;) for accented characters.
>  # We reserve the right to edit any and all submissions as we please.
> @@ -30,7 +34,7 @@ O Company name or Consultant
>  I Individual's Name
>  A Street Address
>  M email address in form user@xxxxxxxxxxx
> -U http://www.yourwebsite.com/ # with trailing slash unless filename.html
> +U http://www.yourwebsite.com/ # with trailing slash unless a specific 
> resource name.
>  B Business Phone Number
>  X FAX Phone Number
>  N Notes about your experience, with UNIX, with BSD, and specifically with 
>
> OK?
>
>

I agree with this. I also wonder about adding nofollow, as done
for the donations page. I'm in two minds, as it will potentially
lower pagerank for some sites who deserve it, but then the fact
they're available to people visiting www.openbsd.org is
probably good enough in itself.