On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 July 2012 17:26, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Barry Storah <barrysto...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I keep getting a message to "Register Your OpenOffice.org", it is not >>> possible as I always get the message - Internet Explorer cannot display the >>> webpage, or from OpenOffice welcome page - get more information "the >>> webpage cannot be found". >>> >> >> Hi Barry, >> >> It sounds like you are installing an old version of OpenOffice. The >> current version is 3.4 and it does not have a registration screen. >> You can download the latest version from >> http://download.openoffice.org. >> >> If for some reason you need to install the older version, you will get >> the behavior you reported. The registration went to a Sun/Oracle >> website that no longer is up. You can safely ignore that error. > > Would it be possible to get the destination URL re-instated?
The registration URL's for OOo 3.3 look like this: https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/<GUID>?prduct=OpenOffice.org&locale=en&cid-926117 So we should be able to handle this entirely with ASF. But I thought there was another version that went directly to an Oracle domain. Maybe that was OOo 3.4 beta 1? The question is: what could we do if even a fraction of the 8 million downloads of AOO 3.4.0 led to a registration? Suggest they join the ooo-announce list? (Can ezmlm handle 100,000 subscribers?) Follow us on Twitter? At the very least we can point them to the FAQ's and support pages. If there is some way we can help users by having them view a post-install registration screen, then we might add the registration step back in future versions. -Rob > Ideally this would redirect to an ASF page (easier to maintain), where > the user could be informed that there is a new version. > Alternatively, the target page could do the same, with a link to the > ASF for further information. > >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> >> >>> Regards, >>> Barry Storah
