Re: Email addresses in GNOME manuals...

[Irene Ryan <irene ryan sun com>]

Great. Everyone seems to agree with making the email addresses optional
in the GNOME manuals so I'll go head and update the templates to reflect
this and let you know when they're updated.

Thanks,
-Irene


John Fleck wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 05:42, Irene Ryan wrote:
> > Hi Sasha,
> >
> > As you know, the current templates for GNOME online manuals include a
> > section for the email address of the author. I'd like to suggest that we
> > make this address optional in the templates. There are two reasons why
> > I'm suggesting this, as follows:
> >
> > * Since the Sun docteam address has been circulated on manuals, we've
> > seen a considerable increase in SPAM to that address. I'm sure other
> > authors have noticed the same thing.
> >
> > * The author's email address detracts attention from the real link that
> > users should be using to provide feedback, ie. the GNOME Feedback Page.
> > We have received feedback about applications and manuals directly to the
> > email address given at the top of the manual and when I've tried to
> > forward the feedback onto the developers, I've found that a lot of email
> > addresses for them are obsolete. It would be better if the only point of
> > contact the user has is via the Feedback page. That way, the feedback
> > gets directed to the appropriate person automatically.
> >
> > What do you think? If you agree, I can update the templates to make it
> > clear that the author's email address is optional.
> >
> 
> I'm fine with this change in the templates. Like Malcolm, I may continue
> to put my address in there, but if the load of spamness is too high,
> I've not objection to leaving it out by default.
> 
> Cheers,
> John
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