From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jan 18 6:15:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36EC637B401 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 06:15:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42AD943ED8 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 06:15:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: from blackhelicopters.org (mwlucas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0IEFbc4027531 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 09:15:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0IEFb3P027530 for doc@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 09:15:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 09:15:37 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: redirections on Web site? Message-ID: <20030118091537.A27473@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Folks, I'm polishing up the press release for 5.0, and have hit a bit of a snag. The general consensus is that for information on getting FreeBSD, it would be best to point at a link like www.freebsd.org/vendors.html For us, the correct link is http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html. The link needs to be spelled out, as press releases are not hypertext. (We present them in hypertext, but they won't be distributed in hypertext.) We can't possibly put that correct link in; it's just not human-readable or human-memorable. It occurs to me that the simplest way to do this is with a redirect, which leads me to two questions: a) Do we allow redirects on the Web site? b) If we do, who knows how to do them? Of course, this is somewhat time-critical... 5.0 is so close I can feel the moisture of its breath on the back of my neck. Any opinions? ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message