From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Mar 26 7:13:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from ns.kconline.com (ns.kconline.com [216.241.132.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D63337B719 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 07:13:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lamar@ns.kconline.com) Received: from localhost (lamar@localhost) by ns.kconline.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2QFDNf55701; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:13:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lamar@ns.kconline.com) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:13:22 -0500 (EST) From: Lamar Peugh To: Szilveszter Adam Cc: Ron Tarrant , Subject: Re: Misleading In-Reply-To: <20010326162229.A13650@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Szilveszter Adam wrote: > Hello, > > My suggestion: > > Leave the link text as is (so that eg in a print edition ppl can still find > out what the actual address of the mailing lists is) but chnage the link to > point to majordomo. However, I don't know if the mailto: URIs can also > contain templates for the text? Because majordomo doesn't care about the > subject, but cares about the text. If so, we can solve it like this. I agree about leaving the link text, but why not have the link direct people to a page such as www.freebsd.org/support.html#mailing-list (or any other appropriate page that might be more informative on how to actually subscribe to the lists -- eg, www.freebsd.org/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL). > If not we should just take out the link (but not the link text!) so that it > isn't clickable any more. This way, hopefully ppl will realize that they > need to actually read a bit more... I would do this as a last resort only, since I think we can probably find a better way to alert people as to how to subscribe to the lists. > BTW, maybe we should take out the mail address of the doc list from under > the title of the Handbook, because I strongly suspect that people never > actually read the footer that says "If you have problems with FreeBSD mail > -questions, if you have a problem with the docs, contact -doc" > (paraphrased) but instead go straight for the mail address that's right > under the title because they expect that the "author" will answer all their > questions. This imposes unnecessary "support load" on the -doc list at > times. I actually think some people are at times misunderstanding doc to mean doctor, which would understandably mislead a newbie to think "support" rather than "documentation", so that distinction might be noted appropriately on the website as well. :-) > -- > Regards: > > Szilveszter ADAM > Szeged University > Szeged Hungary My $0.02.. :-) Regards, Lamar Peugh KC Online System Administration - sysadmin@kconline.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message