From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 12:10:11 2004 Return-Path: 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 D07DE16A4CF; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:10:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.PHLAPAFG.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C8243D3F; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:10:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EEF269A39; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:10:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <40463B85.50105@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:09:41 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran References: <20040303193809.GE300@jenny.daemon.li> <404637F8.5080900@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <404637F8.5080900@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Josef El-Rayes cc: doc@freebsd.org cc: www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm -rf gallery/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 20:10:12 -0000 Bill Moran wrote: > Josef El-Rayes wrote: >> as i did not get much feedback on my request for comments >> about removing the gallery i make it short: >> >> any objections to me removing the gallery >> (www/en/gallery/) from the website? >> >> why? it is hard to maintain, it is no real benefit >> and most links are broken anyway. > > Whoah! > > I'm glad I saw this email, I wasn't paying much attention, but luckily > I saw this before it was done. > > I would have a HUGE problem with this being removed. I've actually got > new customers as a result of my company being listed on the commercial > page. > > I understand that a lot of links are broken and that it's hard to > maintain ... but it has been of TREMENDOUS benefit to us. > > If a doc commiter is willing to do the officials, I'm willing to dontate > my time tracking down the broken links and fixing up the page (it would > benefit me more anyway, if there were less broken links obscuring my > listing) > > Please don't delete this, I'll help maintain it, it's put money in my > pocket. Check that. I took another look, and it appears as though the commercial vendors page is completely different from the gallery. So I reverse my paranoid outburst. I can support the removal of the gallery. I don't think it's helping us any, and I can imagine that it's a PITA. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com