From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T06:20:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

Ben Giddings wrote:
>
> Curt Hibbs wrote:
> > While it true that it can't hurt to ask, the lack of hits in your search
> > merely failed to turn up the way it is being used (I've been a
> customer of
> > NetIdentity since the beginning of their existence)...
>
> > NetIdentity rents "designer" email addresses. That's why my
> email address id
> > curt(at)hibbs.com. I don't own the hibbs.com domain, but I get my email
> > service through them (as do many of my relatives whose last
> names are also
> > Hibbs). NetIdentity hold many thousands of domains.
> >
> > The fact that you didn't get any google hits is mostly because
> no one has
> > renting the associated web space from them (www.hibbs.com).
>
> Right, but do a google search for "hibbs.com", within the first few
> links I find "Dr@Hibbs.com", "mitchell@hibbs.com", and RubyTalk entries
> from you.  OTOH, when I search for ruby.org, and try to get rid of the
> Ruby-language related entries I find... almost nothing.  Maybe hibbs is
> a more common last name, but it seems to me that I should find a few
> random ruby.org addresses in there.
>
> Here's a URL for a google search that tries to find "ruby.org" without
> ruby-language links:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&q=%22ruby.org%22+-pr
> ogramming+-python+-xml+-jp&btnG=Search
>
> (i.e. search for ruby.org without "programming", "python", "xml" or "jp")
>
> There are less than 400 of them, and virtually all of them appear to be
> related to the language, a few others are links to ruby.org.uk, but I
> can't find any bare "ruby.org" links that aren't related to the language.
>

Interesting! Well, its worth a shot!

Curt