From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 8 21:52:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA28880 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 21:52:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA28803 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 21:50:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA19034 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Sat, 8 Feb 1997 21:49:52 -0800 Received: from harlie (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA08127; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 21:47:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 21:47:29 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" X-Sender: ejs@harlie To: Allen Hyer Cc: Dean Anderson , Snob Art Genre , Alec Kloss , pantzer@ludd.luth.se, dean@oec.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP site In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970208181011.00759fb8@wtrt.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This reminds me of a customer I had once. We had a link to the Texas > Lottery Commission on our web page. He called us complaining that we don't > post the winning numbers fast enough on "our" web page. He went on to rant > that if we were going to do something, "why don't we do it right!" Well, > obviously we don't control the Texas Lottery Commission's web page. Yes, > there is a difference, as the FreeBSD team controls the structure of the > FTP site. But, I think you can see the similarity. Reminds me of a feedback I got from a web site we host. A user was typing in urls containing keywords for info he was looking for, and bitched that it wasn't pulling up the info he wanted. Yes, someday I'll tie Apache's error 404 into a site search engine, but just because it isn't done already doesn't mean it's broken.