From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Oct 31 14:01:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22909 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 14:01:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA22903 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 14:01:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id IAA25636; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 08:43:37 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19981101084334.31126@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 08:43:34 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Peter da Silva Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New prototype for the FreeBSD homepage References: <19981028151508.A8115@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <19981028232318.35249@nothing-going-on.org> <19981029132834.A17530@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>,<19981029132834.A17530@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <19981101061204.63924@welearn.com.au> <199810312135.PAA17201@bonkers.taronga.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199810312135.PAA17201@bonkers.taronga.com>; from Peter da Silva on Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 03:35:38PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 03:35:38PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > In article <19981101061204.63924@welearn.com.au> you write: > >There is another link that I'm thinking should be there but it'll take > >some more planning and another web page. We have some visitors who are > >so sure about what they (think they) have to do, that no hints to the > >contrary will alter their expectations: > > > I have to download a file, probably called freebsd.zip, probably > > a couple of megabytes, and then unzip it and run freebsd.exe or > > setup.exe to see what this program looks like. Then I'll understand > > what FreeBSD is. > > Do we want people who think that's what FreeBSD is, trying to install and > run FreeBSD? No. That's why we need to direct them to something they can understand instead of letting them end up in -questions where nobody has the time to understand them. It shows we have respect for their time even though they are no use to us. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message