On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 07:10:04AM -0800, Mike Noyes scribbled:
> > Pedro,
> > Ok, I'm sorry I didn't phrase that question better. You're leaning towards
> > multiple listings, correct?
>
> That makes two of us. Not only might one user look under 'firewalls'
> because that's the only keyword he knows, where a power user looking
> for flexibility might look under 'network utilities'; but also, it's
> always difficult to navigate directories like that correctly -- so,
> somebody might try a few branches and find something like 'embedded'
> or 'firewall' or 'network utilities' before he finds the others, and
> each user finds a different one first, and often doesn't find any of
> the others.
>
Good point -- I personally never try to browse my way to a goal, but
rather use the search engine. Don't know if that's common or not, but if
it's common then we can stick the listing anywhere...
> > ><snip>
> > >so, what I want to say is that LEAF is a 'system' that can do many things
> > >around the routing issue, and it can serve several purposes, why not use
> > >that feature to make it known to all?
> >
> > This makes sense, but how do we resolve the single listing requirement of
> > the Open Directory project?
>
How about LEAF/Oxygen, LEAF/Eigerstein, LEAF/royal-king-elmo (squeaks "Oh
nooo!!! Let's sing the hacker song!!!!" every time psentry goes off),
&c...
> You know my suggestion...since LEAF isn't a single 'product', not
> a one-trick pony, LEAFs can get categorized and each category has
> a page under leaf.sourceforge.net/categoryname/; then each of the
> categories has a listing in OpenDir.
>
> > --
> > Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > http://leaf.sourceforge.net/
>
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