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