From owner-freebsd-doc Sun May 6 4:22: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF15137B423 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 04:21:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f46BIo508014 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 07:18:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3AF5336E.FEE3CF44@iowna.com> Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 07:20:14 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RC i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thanks in advance for fixing this bug/oversight =) References: <002c01c0d5b7$90fe24c0$0b00a8c0@spirit> <20010506092535.A22765@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Szilveszter Adam wrote: > My suggestion still stands. Why the hell not put up a conspicous apology > to the web page explaining that ftp.freebsd.org doesn't work (and as a > consequence much of the infrastructure outside of CVS/cvsup for that > matter) so people don't have to come and ask one-by-one? Let's face it > guys, this has already been very embarassing, it can't get any worse and by > explaining to people that we are working on a fix, we are actually > regaining face and not look unprofessional in the eyes of the many > visitors. After all, a notice can be taken down rather quickly once things > are A OK again... If anyone is taking a poll, I'm in agreement on this. At least put a note when you log into ftp.freebsd.org that this is a temporary server and does not have all the content at this time. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message