On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:49:49PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > When we first started distributing the iso images, we had a problem > with people downloading them when that is not what they wanted. > Thus, the wording above. Also, since bandwidth is donated, we need > to be careful that we don't exceed the good will of our sponsors.
Hm, but OTOH currently we're just wasting our sponsors' HD space, because the official ISO mirror list is *REALLY* hard to find. (Just try and see if you can find it!) The *links* should be easy to find. CD mirror admins can always set up bandwidth throttling if their mirror becomes overloaded... > With the new (well it's existed for a few years now) set of pages on > cdimage.d.o that preface the download page maybe the first item > isn't a concern. The issue of bandwidth should be looked into, > though, before we make the links more obvious. But IMNSHO obscuring the links is really the wrong approach! Information on a web site should not try to "guide" a visitor because we "know better" than him; everything should be described so that the *visitor* can decide what to do and get to the desired information with the minimum number of clicks. Any "you want to do this and this, believe me" will annoy a great many visitors. Richard Obligatory plug: <http://www.useit.com/> -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯
