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From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
To: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git has been granted the Famous Software Award - Download.FamousWhy.com
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:13:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C3F79E4.7040803@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279226674-sup-1508@nixos>

On 07/15/2010 04:47 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
> Excerpts from Sverre Rabbelier's message of Thu Jul 15 21:02:43 +0200 2010:
>> Heya,
>
>> Are you spam?
> If it was spam you would find more of it using google. I checked (not
> too carefully though). They may award any project once a month or so.
>
> On the other hand the git page is a nice place to put backlinks on.
>
> So maybe it depends on how you define spam :)

It fits my definition of SEO (search engine optimization) SPAM.

* The backlink appears to be what is valuable to them since they make a 
number of promises of things they will do (implied: only) in return for 
a backlink.

* The site appears to be advertising supported.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-15 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100715133338.17833310BD9@mail.famouswhy.com>
2010-07-15 19:02 ` Git has been granted the Famous Software Award - Download.FamousWhy.com Sverre Rabbelier
2010-07-15 20:47   ` Marc Weber
2010-07-15 21:13     ` A Large Angry SCM [this message]
2010-07-16  8:49     ` Adrian Barbu - Webmaster

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