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From: "Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:02:18
Message-Id: 436B92EC.9050903@ieee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting by Chris Gianelloni
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4 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
5 > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 10:58 -0500, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
6 >
7 >>I've done several Gentoo installs and never knew the plain text versions
8 >>existed. I think you might want to check the assumption that just
9 >>because they exists they are widely known (and if they aren't known to
10 >>exist, they don't do squat for the end user). Surely we're not going to
11 >>delve into an arguement over whether the web is the best way to
12 >>distribute information...
13 >
14 >
15 > Ehh...
16 >
17 > It is listed in the MOTD on the installation media. I'm not making any
18 > assumptions on this. It's really not our fault when the user base
19 > doesn't read what is sitting in front of them, plainly on the screen.
20 >
21 > Thank you for proving my point.
22 >
23
24 And what point would that be exactly? Console messages are ineffective?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>