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From: Jim Mock <jim@corp.au.triax.com>
To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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Subject: Re: The Advocacy Project web site
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On Sat, 10 Apr 1999 at 15:05:28 -0600, Brett Taylor wrote:
> Hi,
>

Hi Brett,
 
[snip..]
> I've got a few comments - in the image gallery, at least so far on
> the "new daemon" page you are requiring the browser to scale the
> images for the "thumbnails."  This is bad - the user still has to
> load the entire 90kB image instead of a smaller thumbnail.  Please
> make smaller versions of the images to use as the thumbnails - both
> xv and gimp will do this easily.

I did that earlier today.  It was something I planned on doing
eventually but forgot about.  Thanks for reminding me =)

> I'm also wondering what the "Super Advocates" link is for...
>

This came from Don's site (http://www.thuntek.net/~dwilde1/advotasks.html)
under the Ammunition section..

	7. Awarding Recognition and Incentives to Super-Advocates 
		o Hard-to-get, kill-if-not-earned special T-Shirts 
		o Recognition Plaques and Awards 
		o Normal T-Shirts 
		o Crystal Logo Plates 
		o Special Website honors 

> In the main text in paragraph 2 you have a mistake in the HTML for
> the projects list.  The link should point to:
> 
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/projects/#advocacy
> 

Whoops, typo.  Fixed, thanks.

> In the April 1999 "In the press" section there is a link to CNN as:
> 
> 	http://www.cnn.com/
> 
> I'd remove this link and just have the pointer to the article at CNN
> as you do.  I figured the "CNN" link would take me to the actual
> article.
>

I'm not sure what we'll do here.  I understand what you're saying, but
I think it's also good to provide a link back to the main 
publication/web site as well as the article.

> Other than the above things though it looks great.  Nice job. 
>

Thanks =)
 
Later,

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