From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 3 22:31:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (props.e-u-a.net [209.42.222.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D58237B424 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 22:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 29898 invoked by uid 1000); 4 May 2001 05:29:00 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 01:29:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: David Scheidt Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , Subject: Re: Concern over ftp.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Because of the change of machines, there are loads of broken links, which hinders the average user (who doesn't care about checking mirrors if a link is "broken"). That's my only concern. There should be a notice about it on the main page, or any absolute links to FTP sites should be changed to relative links or links to a CGI which chooses an appropriate FTP site, or can be changed in the www CVS as an external variable (so each file doesn't need changed) or something so when the site is co'd/export'd and mirrored, it points to current, working, known-good links. My AU$0.04 -- [ Joseph Mallett ] [ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ] [ Proud Open/Free/Net/4.4BSD User; C Programmer; Mad ] [ www.xMach.org ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message