X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Robert Pendell Subject: Re: Your Upload.com Submission Has Been Accepted Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:06:47 -0400 Lines: 67 Message-ID: References: <00c601c65b7e$59f6c7f0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: id=108E9AB6 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter A. Castro wrote: > On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > >> On 08 April 2006 01:30, Peter A. Castro wrote: >> >>> This is quite strange. It says it was added April 7th, 2006, yet its >>> got >>> 10 reviews, all dated quite some time before then (version 1.3.22-1 and >>> 12-Nov-2003) and also lists 173,253 downloads. It also says the >>> publisher is "Cygnus Solutions". The reviews look legit (well, at least >>> the talk about things that are true about Cygwin). >>> >>> I'm betting this entry was previously cataloged as something else, and >>> someone very nicely, "corrected" it to match reality (annoying, indeed). >> >> I'm betting they've been distributing cygwin/setup for years and have >> just >> updated it and that this update somehow triggered off a form letter to >> the >> recorded contact address. >> >>> Good luck getting it removed. It's CNET.COM, after all... >> >> The more important thing is, they've mis-described the license as >> 'free', >> when it should be 'gpl'. That needs fixing. > > I believe cgf would prefer that it simply go away rather than just > correcting the entry. After some more rooting around on the site, it > eventually led me to here: > > http://www.cnetnetworks.com/editorial/contacts.html > > The email address for the "Site Director-CNET Download.com" is > Kelly.Morrison@cnet.com. > > Someone might want to try emailing her. If not, their HQ is here: > > CNET Networks, Inc - Headquarters > 235 Second Street, > San Francisco, CA 94105 > Phone: 415-344-2008 > > This is from http://www.cnetnetworks.com/aboutus/locations.html > It is actually 415-344-2000 (look closer at the page). Can be verified by retrieving the whois information for the domain. I posted this in another thread already as well. I also gave their hours since I already dialed the number. - -- Robert Pendell shinji257@uplink.net Thawte Web of Trust Notary CAcert Notary -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEOTEXNqnRaBCOmrYRAknhAKCZ819voKoqUhGBRz/XvanWe9WPcACfRGxh IUVx5Dfi8drLMpGuSvbwE1Y= =QVhd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/