[Webteam] WinRAR Cooporation

[karl]

Michael van der Gulik skrev:
> WinRAR-Marketing wrote:
>
>> Dear Squeak Team,
>>
>> I am contacting you from win.rar GmbH, the official publisher of
>> WinRAR, with a business proposal that could be in your interest.
>> While viewing  your web-site at www.squeak.org, I noticed that you offer
>> your downloads mainly in .zip and .exe formats. We would like to propose
>> you to consider adding the .rar format to your current download options.
>> Since RAR files can usually compress content up to 30 percent better
>> than ZIP, this would save downloading time for the people who download
>> files from your website.
>> WinRAR is the most complete file compression tool available on the 
>> market. It supports all RAR and ZIP archives, as well as most other
>> popular archive formats, e.g. CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO,
>> BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip. The RAR archiver is also available for Linux,
>> MacOS X, DOS, OS/2 and  FreeBSD. Moreover, WinRAR is constantly being
>> developed and all future updates are for free. Please check out
>> our official website at www.win-rar.com for more detailed information
>> about WinRAR.
>> To begin our cooperation, we would like to offer you a free license of
>> WinRAR so that you can have a chance to test our product firsthand. If
>> you are happy with WinRAR and feel that it is a product that Squeak Team
>> would be interested in using, then we would like to discuss ways in 
>> which
>> we can offer WinRAR to you.
>>
>> We hope that you will consider our business proposal. Should you have 
>> any
>> questions, please feel free to contact me at your earliest convenience.
>> You can reach me personally via e-mail or call me at +49-421-639390.
>>  
>>
> Sure, we'll just pay you a lot of money for software that doesn't 
> fulfill our packaging requirements any better than freely available 
> software.
>
> Looks like an automatic mail-out. Does Germany have spam laws against 
> this? 
Michael,
the list is moderated and there is lots of spam, this one looked like a 
legit mail so I let it through.
I know nothing about WinRAR but someone might be interested ;-)
Karl