From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 25 16:16:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ACCC154D8 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:16:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06505; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:15:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Licia Cc: Donald Wilde , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a "how did you hear about us?" form on www.freebsd.org? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:34:04 CST." Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:15:36 -0800 Message-ID: <6503.922407336@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The install process registration has made me wonder too. Would it be possibl e > perhaps to offer a "print this out and mail it in" registration for people The registration process everyone is currently seeing now really need to be ripped out and replaced. Why? Several reasons. One, as you've noted, there's no way to do the registration when you haven't got email set up yet; a good percentage of the registrations we get are actually bounced back by freebsd.org's spam filter, which doesn't deal with sites without proper DNS. When you've set the machine up before the DNS entry, as many do, that's clearly not going to work. Secondly there's the fact that email, even though clearly imperfect, is the only way to go. We don't deal well with web site registration (at least not in a way which weeds/prevents duplicates or allows someone to change their existing entries) and we don't allow people to postal mail their stuff in to some counter person. The idea of having people register at installation time is a good one, don't get me wrong, but my initial "proof of concept implementation" there is clearly showing many cracks now. Who'd like to take over registration at this stage? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message