Hi,

On 1/5/06 9:45 PM Edward Buck wrote:
> Hi Louis,
> 
> Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
> 
>> Not at all is it a question of  "majority"; it is rather a question of
>> some who help out the project. The larger issue is that though we have a
>> terrific archipelago of mirrors, all of whom volunteer their bandwidth,
>> space, effort and time, we do not have load balancing, automatic
>> checking, and so on, so many mirrors are empty when people go there,
>> despite Stefan's and my efforts.  Jacqueline McNally and I receive a
>> fair number of posts to webmasters from people who encountered more than
>> one 404.  They opt, in the end, for CDROMs.
>>
>> Also, if it ends up making the homepage kludgy, then let's not.  And if
>> the new download page does the trick, let's go there.
> 
> Did you already make the change?  The home page as I see it already has 
> a link to CDROMs.  If that's the new page, I think it looks fine.

No, I did nothing. The link it has now is at the bottom of the paragraph
on 2.0.1. I meant to add one where it says, "download...."
> 
> If the desire is to help CDROM distributors sell more CDs, then perhaps 
> the link to download the ISO on the main CDROM page shouldn't be so 
> prominent.  Instead, the page could lead with 'Obtain CDROM from a 
> distributor' and then further down, you would have the CDROM download links.

I haven't checked the latest cdrom page.... but Alex reads this list and
will surely catch that. The goal is not really to help (or not only)
cdrom distros. It is also (and mostly) to help endusers.

Honestly, if people like the current scheme, and if the new download
page satisfies users, then.... I really prefer less than more. :-)

Cheers
Louis


> 
> Regards,
> Ed
> 
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