From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Oct 31 15:24:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01356 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 15:24:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt053n18.san.rr.com (dt053n18.san.rr.com [204.210.34.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01351 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 15:24:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt053n18.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15276; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 15:23:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Studded@gorean.org) Message-ID: <363B9BD5.3D83CF2D@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 15:23:01 -0800 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE-1026 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake CC: Peter da Silva , 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> <19981101084334.31126@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake wrote: > > 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. Maybe there is too much snipping in this thread, but I don't understand what either of you are talking about. Can whoever wants there to be a change please provide a lot more detail about why, and perhaps a sample text that the link would point to? Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message