Re: Xconq Mailing Lists - Please Read

[Lincoln Peters <sampln@sbcglobal.net>]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 14:11 -0400, Eric McDonald wrote: 
> If you want to see it updated, then either I need to 
> have assurances that Hans will not be having any more accidents 
> (allegedly) that clobber my CVS commits, or you will need to get 
> someone else to do it. Talk to Stan maybe....

I don't think that it's necessary to keep it up-to-date, but I think
that if it's not going to be updated, then it needs to say that the
Xconq project has moved to SourceForge.  Otherwise, I'm pretty sure that
the confusion will continue.

> 
> >That could easily be a source of
> > confusion for a lot of people, especially as long as Google lists the
> > RedHat site at the top of the search results when someone does a search
> > for "Xconq" (Coop's website is listed second, and the SourceForge site
> > is listed eighth).
> 
> Actually, it varies a fair amount. One of the reasons that the 
> old site comes out higher is because it is cross-referenced in 
> more categories in various directories. In the dmoz open 
> directory, it is linked to one additional category. I could 
> counter this by simply removing the primary reference to it, but I 
> think that would be overstepping the bounds of my editorial 
> discretion on dmoz....

If there is a link to the SourceForge site given on the old site, I'm
not sure that this will be a problem.  Eventually, other sites that
reference the Xconq project will (hopefully) figure out that we've moved
the project and update their links, thus making the new site appear at
the top of the results when Googl'ed, and finally allowing us to take
the old site down.

Or so we can hope...

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Lincoln Peters
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