On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 22:23 +0200, Marcus wrote: > On Friday 10 August 2007 06:19, Niel Archer wrote: > > I think it's way past time some aspects of > > joining, being listed, etc, were automated via a form on the site. > > > That would be great, and then maybe this list could be about > distribution instead of people asking for permission. We really need to > explain how Open Source software works to distributors. The only mail > we seem to get here is people unfamiliar with OSS distribution. > > One technical request: Can we *please* make the distributor lists appear > in random order. It is really annoying with a company name at the end > of the alphabet. We hardly get any referrals because people do not even > get to our listing. > > Meanwhile companies who use a name beginning with numbers and "AAAAA" > are at the top of the page. I looked in my local hardcopy yellow pages, > and those companies are now actually treated as spamming the directory. > They are placed at the very end of the directory, after Z. > > I don't think that is necessary, use whatever name you like, but the > order should be random on each page load to be fair to all > distributors. > > > Marcus
I think that the random arrangement on each hit is a good idea, but it would need to be random within each region or Country listing. Why make people in Morocco have to search the whole list just to find their nerarest. I think Global Distributors should be put in their own category, and mention their preferred language for communication with prospective clients. In Australia I have the top position because I am listed under my own name but I must say it is a busy week when I send out 3 disk sets. I would be happy to be randomly sorted within the Australian listing. Andrew Greig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
