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This screen allows you to register yourself with the FreeBSD Project's
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user counter & statistics database.
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** IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO THIS! **
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Believe me, I hate filling out forms as much as anyone, and most
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people's understandable reaction to a registration form is to say "Eh,
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what's this? They want to send me junk mail and then on top of that
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they expect me to go to *extra* trouble in order to make it easy for
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them?! Forget it!"
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This is not that kind of registration, and I strongly urge you to take
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just a few minutes to read this and find out how much the simple act
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of registering can help both you and FreeBSD.
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1. It is very much in your best interest, as a FreeBSD user, to stand
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up and be counted so that various software vendors will begin to
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take you and your operating system seriously. There are numerous
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ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) who would be only too happy
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to port the kinds of applications that many FreeBSD users are
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currently screaming for (everything from spreadsheets and word
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processing packages to games) if they only had some idea that it
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might be worth the trouble. The only way to convince the ISVs that
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FreeBSD is worth their trouble is to show them how many users
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we have, and to do that we need your registration! At this time
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we literally do not know how many users FreeBSD has, and that's
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hardly helpful when you're trying to convince someone to port
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software to it.
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2. We will not send you *anything* you do not ask for. Some people
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are genuinely interested in new product announcements for FreeBSD
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or want to hear about security issues & other important advisories
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as they come up, and for such people we've added registration
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options for selecting various types of additional material they
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might be interested in receiving as a side-effect of registration.
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The default behavior is to NOT put the user on any special mailing
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lists or provide their names in mailing list data sent to
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(carefully screened) FreeBSD product advertisers - all of that must
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be specifically requested during the registration.
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Most fields in the form are fairly self-explanatory. At the minimum,
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you should enter your first and last name as well as your email
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address so that we can weed obvious duplicates from the counter. You
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will NOT be sent any mail at this address unless you also sign up for
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one of the additional notification services, and it's only used to
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provide us with a way of differentiating "John Smith <smith@foo.org>"
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from "John Smith <jsm@bar.com>" in the simple, no-frills registration
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case. If you do not have an email address, some sort of postal
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address will serve the same purpose.
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If you also wish to receive the FreeBSD Newsletter, published and
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distributed free of charge by Walnut Creek CDROM in printed form,
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then you must specify some sort of postal address. Likewise, if you
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elect to receive notification on the email version then you should
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specify a valid Email address. Back-issues of the FreeBSD newsletter
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are available at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/newsletter/ .
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Should you wish to unsubscribe to the FreeBSD Newsletter or otherwise
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de-register yourself at a later time, you can simply send mail to
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register-request@freebsd.org. If you subscribe to the announce
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mailing list (and it's a good idea) then you can modify your
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subscription at any time by sending mail to majordomo@freebsd.org
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Your cooperation with this new registration service is greatly
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appreciated, and by taking just 5 minutes to fill this out now you
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will be helping us to gather data which will greatly assist FreeBSD in
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firmly establishing a position as a serious UN*X operating system
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contender.
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Regards,
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Jordan Hubbard,
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FreeBSD PR Officer
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