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[209.85.215.52]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l129sm2106098lfl.37.2016.01.04.10.34.32 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:34:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-lf0-f52.google.com with SMTP id c192so104300725lfe.2 for ; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:34:32 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.25.148.142 with SMTP id w136mr17324497lfd.31.1451932472432; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 10:34:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.25.209.196 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Jan 2016 10:34:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:34:00 -0000 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: Two web page issues From: Erik Soderquist To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: eli@barzilay.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > (I'm not subscribed to this list, so hopefully this will work.) I'm mildly surprised it did (see below). > One thing that bugged me in the past is the use of "BLODA" in the FAQ > text ("all software on the BLODA") -- since it's part of the text, an > obvious question is what it means, and, confusingly enough, that's not > explained in the text that BLODA links to. https://cygwin.com/acronyms/ I don't know how this is linked to; I have it bookmarked. > I eventually googled my way to the explanation that time -- and since > fork issues are rare enough, it's been enough time to forget the > meaning of that thing, so I just went down the same path. Again. > I'm guessing that someone thought that it'll catch on as a term, > but it still looks like a cygwin-ism. > > (For extra credit, google now helpfully suggests images -- look for it > now, then imagine that someone else looked at your screen as you're > trying to stutter something that sounds technical.) This extra credit assignment was ... interesting... ;) > It would be nice if the above text says just "all software on list>", or otherwise explains the meaning in the #faq.using.bloda entry. > > > > A second thing that could use some friendly improvement is to list the > email address of this list in the page that describes it. AFAICT, this > should be https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ -- but there is nowhere that I > see there where the actual email is found... In theory, I guess that I > could read through https://cygwin.com/lists.html and reach the point > where it says "Mail sent to themailinglistname@cygwin.com will go to the > list" and guess that the "cygwin:" entry means that that's the email. > But in practice this is as good as not being there... I've found it before, but I'm subscribed, so... specifically not listing the address is a common spam prevention method, and many lists will reject (silently or otherwise) email from non-subscribed addresses as a spam prevention method as well. -- Erik > > -- > ((x=>x(x))(x=>x(x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple