Re: FW: Seeking advice about Linux UPS solution

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I was wondering if anyone else got this email. From what I understood from
> the email headers this email was sent to linkmaster@klug.armintl.com.

This is the first I've seen of it, so I think it came only to you.

I have to wonder if he is sincere, or if that's a really slick way
of spamming us KLUG members?  If you think he is sincere, read on:

> My ideas were to somehow advertise on http://slashdot.org/ and
> http://www.freshmeat.net/ and to get a print ad in Linux Journal. One other
> good idea would to be to email the maintainer of the Linux Hardware HOWTO
> and tell him that this UPS already has software from the vendor. And also
> see if there are any specific pages only about Linux UPS's and tell them
> about this product.

All good ideas.  One other idea is to put an add for it in the newsgroup:
comp.os.linux.announce  But do not spam the other Linux newsgroups because
that could create ill feelings toward his company with Linux users.

We need to discuss this first with the other KLUG officers, but we might
want to offer to exchange links with him, if he's willing to link us on
their web page.  (if anyone really believes he's sincere, I have my doubts)

> If no-one else got this email, I will collect the ideas and send a response
> back to this person.

Sounds good.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Rothman [mailto:drothman@fentonups.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 1998 2:05 PM
> To: drothman@loop.com
> Subject: Seeking advice about Linux UPS solution
> 
> 
> I have noticed that a lot of Linux community consultants, resellers, and
> users have had difficulties with the issue of Linux software for UPSs.
> 
> I am seeking advice about how to best let the Linux community know that UPS
> monitoring and automatic shutdown software is available as a free download
> for use with Fenton uninterrruptible power supplies. I thought it would be
> useful for the Linux community to know that at least one very simple and
> effective UPS software solution is available to them (and of course it
> doesn't hurt that the UPSs themselves are low cost too).
> 
> Would you recommend that we do banner advertising on certain Linux web
> sites, do print advertising in certain Linux publications, monitor certain
> Linux newsgroups to see if people are looking for UPS software solutions,
> or is there some other means of letting the Linux community know about the
> availability of this useful and free Fenton UPS solution for Linux?
> 
> Thanks for your help and advice.
> 
> By the way, if you want to see what were are talking about, the UPS
> software for Linux downloads and manuals are at
> ftp://megatec.com.tw/Rups2/UNIX/v3.01 and the Fenton web site information
> is at http://www.fentonups.com/index2.htm
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Dan Rothman
> 
> 
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