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[Adam Miller]

Awesome, thanks Vincent.

And, yes I agree with the not logging in, but Jonathan brought up a valid
point about keeping traffic control away from spam bots and such by
requiring a login. So its kind of a rock in a hard spot situation.

-Adam

On 11/2/06, Vincent <imnotb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think the comments are going fine if only we'd have captcha's so you did
> not have to login...
>
> And if you're admin: http://xubuntu.org/admin/comment
>
> Newest messages at the top.
>
> On 11/1/06, Adam Miller <maxamillion at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I completely agree as well. Also, is there some way i can view all new
> > comments when logged into drupal?
> >
> > I also think we need to find some better means of bulletin board
> > communication because the comments thing isn't going so well.
> >
> > -Adam
> >
> > On 11/1/06, Vincent < imnotb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I completely I agree and did not plan putting it on the site ;)
> > >
> > > I do think we should put the new docs on the site, anywhere I can find
> > > them? And is it possible to expand them? E.g. it could include
> > > something on what packages to add for MP3 support.
> > >
> > > On 11/1/06, Jani Monoses < jani.monoses at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 11/1/06, Vincent <imnotb at gmail.com > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://xubuntu.org/news/website_live#comment-28
> > > > >
> > > > > The website for downloading Xubuntu packages website is not used
> > > > > too much, as most people install new programs via the Synaptic program. If
> > > > > you try that, you'll probably find that it is very easy in use, even easier
> > > > > than the Windows .exe's.
> > > > > Your comments on the names have been taken into account, we will
> > > > > explicitly note that it is a codename at the site.
> > > > >
> > > > > Please bear in mind that e.g. download.com is not by Microsoft, it
> > > > > is a third party site.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, installing Automatix by default might bring legal issues,
> > > > > the same as installing proprietary codecs by default.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I am not comfortable with endorsements of automatix or other 3rd
> > > > party installers on xubuntu.org as they may cause problems for
> > > > inexperienced users. They can still be found on the forums by those who
> > > > really look for them. We get enough spurious (non-Xfce or strictly xubuntu)
> > > > bugs in LP, I would not want to get signal/noise even lower by getting
> > > > reports about broken packages only to find out it's due to the system not
> > > > using only offciial repos.
> > > > I know that was only a comment above, just want to make sure we
> > > > don't get 3rd package manager howtos on the official site.
> > > >
> > > > thoughts?
> > > >
> > > > Jani
> > > >
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