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Date:      Sat, 2 Jan 1999 18:57:24 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>
Cc:        Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Possible change to first page on site
Message-ID:  <19990102185724.A27072@panke.de.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990102234426.42040@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 11:44:26PM %2B1100
References:  <12300.915050871@zippy.cdrom.com> <368D5457.B4FD24F5@aei.ca> <19990102130428.B26221@panke.de.freebsd.org> <19990102234426.42040@welearn.com.au>

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On 1999-01-02 23:44:26 +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> > On 1999-01-01 18:03:51 -0500, Malartre wrote:
> > 
> > > One last thing, why not changing Getting FreeBSD to Installing FreeBSD?
> > > I'm not an English expert(hehe), but "Installing" or something with
> > > "Install" would be better than "Getting".
> > 
> > Good idea.
> 
> Getting FreeBSD sounds safer to me.
> 
> First timers won't follow the link about installing. They think
> download-then-install so it seems obvious to them that they have to
> "get" it first, or at least check out where it is and how big the
> freebsd.zip file is :-) Remove "get" and expect more of them to write
> to -questions asking how to get it. Leave "Getting FreeBSD" there, and
> we can trick some of them into actually going to the installation
> instructions.

Anything is good which reduce the mail flood.

BTW, the link 'Getting FreeBSD' point to the handbook
chapter '2. Installing FreeBSD' ;-)

-- 
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://freebsd.org/~w/

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