From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 12 03:13:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA08616 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 03:13:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (intschool.easynet.co.uk [194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA08573 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 03:13:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@internationalschool.co.uk) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (bamboo.tis [10.0.0.70]) by internationalschool.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA21698; Tue, 12 May 1998 11:12:18 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3558208A.608FBFBA@internationalschool.co.uk> Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 11:12:26 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: The International School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: drosih@rpi.edu CC: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improving results of registration forms References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > PLEASE tell me how to improve it in your eyes, then? Bear in mind > > the previous statements that previous surveys have not worked and > > that the registration form doesn't work much better. > > I wonder what could be done to improve the response-rate of a > registration form. If it's not already, make sure the help page is displayed before the form, and add a note saying that the registration will be queued for when you manage to get internet email to work :-) < slightly out of context :-) > > What does that look like? Name, Address, Email, Do you want printed/emailed FreeBSD announcements, do you want commercial FreeBSD-related emails. Very quick to fill in. The problem is, this is at a stage when very few people have a working 'net connection... > Also, what kind of performance do people see when they connect to > www.freebsd.org? pretty good, despite being the other side of quite a lot of water :-) of course the UK ones work better for me... try looking at some mirrors with traceroute to see which is nearest for you. Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message