Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:26:18 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: Lamar Peugh <lamar@ns.kconline.com>, Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Cc: Ron Tarrant <rtarrant@sympatico.ca>, <doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Misleading Message-ID: <01032719273802.00297@mark9.vladsempire.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103260955570.53619-100000@ns.kconline.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0103260955570.53619-100000@ns.kconline.com>
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Lamar Peugh wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Szilveszter Adam wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > My suggestion: > > > > Leave the link text as is (so that eg in a print edition ppl can still find > > out what the actual address of the mailing lists is) but chnage the link to > > point to majordomo. However, I don't know if the mailto: URIs can also > > contain templates for the text? Because majordomo doesn't care about the > > subject, but cares about the text. If so, we can solve it like this. > > I agree about leaving the link text, but why not have the link direct people to a page such as www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list (or any other appropriate page that might be more informative on how to actually subscribe to the lists -- eg, www.freebsd.org/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL). > This sounds like a great idea. Would you like to do a patch and submit it? If not, I'll do one. Josh jpaetzel@hutchtel.net > > If not we should just take out the link (but not the link text!) so that it > > isn't clickable any more. This way, hopefully ppl will realize that they > > need to actually read a bit more... > > I would do this as a last resort only, since I think we can probably find a better way to alert people as to how to subscribe to the lists. > > > BTW, maybe we should take out the mail address of the doc list from under > > the title of the Handbook, because I strongly suspect that people never > > actually read the footer that says "If you have problems with FreeBSD mail > > -questions, if you have a problem with the docs, contact -doc" > > (paraphrased) but instead go straight for the mail address that's right > > under the title because they expect that the "author" will answer all their > > questions. This imposes unnecessary "support load" on the -doc list at > > times. > > I actually think some people are at times misunderstanding doc to mean doctor, which would understandably mislead a newbie to think "support" rather than "documentation", so that distinction might be noted appropriately on the website as well. :-) > > > -- > > Regards: > > > > Szilveszter ADAM > > Szeged University > > Szeged Hungary > > My $0.02.. :-) > > Regards, > > Lamar Peugh > KC Online System Administration - sysadmin@kconline.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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