On Monday 19 June 2006 04:32, Steven Pasternak wrote: > > We need advertising!!! Most people I've spoken to have never heard of > linux (or suse or fedora or debian etc.). If granny knew that linux > could bring life back into her WinME system, she would know to buy > redhat or suse or anything not windows and $400! This is the correspondence I had with TV Channel 5 in the UK:- <start> Your Reference: VA/122479/PP (Please quote this reference in all further correspondence) Date: 9th March 2005 Dear Dave Thank you for your recent e-mail regarding The Gadget Show and please allow us to apologise for the delay in responding. This has been due to us receiving an unusually large amount of viewer correspondence. Your appreciative comments regarding the programme have been noted in our Viewer Enquiries Report, which is circulated throughout the company. Thank you for your interest in Five. Yours sincerely VIEWER ADVISOR Please note that the contact details for Five Customer Services are as follows: Telephone: 0845 7 05 05 05 Text telephone for use by deaf people: 0845 7 41 37 87 E-mail: customerservices@xxxxxxx Fax: 020 7836 1286 -----Original Message----- From: David Fletcher [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 04 March 2005 21:25 To: Customer Services Subject: Gadget show That was an excellent piece in "The Gadget Show" this evening, about open source software. I've posted details on the Fedora Linux mailing list. Let's have more of the same good stuff, please. Regards, Dave Fletcher -- I use and recommend the email service at 1 & 1 For domain registration, email and web hosting please visit: http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=6389763 www.five.tv _______________________________________________________ This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. It must not be used by or its contents copied or disclosed to persons other than the intended recipient. Any liability arising from any third party acting or refraining from acting on any information contained in this e-mail is excluded. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender immediately and delete it and any copies from your computer and network. This e-mail has been checked for viruses but it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the opening use or onward transmission of the e-mail and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data and no responsibility is accepted by Five in this regard. _______________________________________________________ <end> I can't remember the exact content of the program, but they were certainly showing off The Gimp, and a couple of other things. I thought WOW the message is going out, but I've never seen anything else like it since. Pity. -- Registered Linux user number 393408 I use and recommend the email service at 1 & 1 For domain registration, email and web hosting please visit: http://oneandone.co.uk/xml/init?k_id=6389763 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
