discuss: Re: Linux Gazette blocks newbies
Subject:
Re: Linux Gazette blocks newbies
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
13 Nov 2002 15:31:22 -0000
Message-Id: <200211131031.18207.david@lupercalia.net>
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I'm not seeing this happen. Is anybody else?
On Tuesday 12 November 2002 13:46, Joy Y Goodreau wrote:
> Hi Jorn,
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> This is certainly what we are NOT about.
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> Unfortunately The Linux Documentation Project has no control over where
> you are redirected when you go to the www.linuxdoc.org . Josh Drake
> owns the address www.linuxdoc.org, www.linuxdoc.com and his company
> (Command Prompt) owns thelinuxreview.com. The potential for this type
> of problem is one reason why the TLDP staff felt the need to move to a
> new address that was owned by the LDP (now TLDP at www.tldp.org)
> despite Josh's protests that he would treat his dealings with The Linux
> Documentation Project ethically and without a conflict of interest. As
> a note, the Linux Review
> site(www.linuxdoc.com) does have a prominent link to TLDP at the top of
> the page that takes you to our real site.
>
> We apologize. Perhaps this is only a temporary error created without
> Josh's knowledge. Regardless, the only avenue we have open is to work
> very hard to get rid off all references (printed and otherwise) to the
> www.linuxdoc.org as the site the TLDP. Please publicize this effort to
> list our correct address and help us advocate using the new address to
> any and all that will listen.
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>
> Thanks,
>
> joy
>
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> Joy Y. Goodreau
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> (Jorn Barger) To:
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> 11/12/2002 12:07 Subject: Linux Gazette
> blocks newbies PM
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> I'm sure you know the top hit at Google for 'Linux Documentation
> Project' is "www.linuxdoc.org" which for some reason now redirects to
> "thelinuxreview.com"?
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> But if you look at that Linux Review homepage from the perspective of a
> newcomer looking for Linux documentation, they're bound to be (as I
> was) seriously frustrated by the difficulty of figuring out where the
> LDP really is.
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> This morning I complained to Joshua Drake about this, and his attitude
> is absolutely that he could care less what happens to newbies looking
> for the LDP. Is this what the Linux community is about?
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> Why not redirect 'linuxdoc' to 'tldp'? Or at least get the Review to
> put a link at the top of their homepage saying unambiguously 'Linux
> Documentation Project'?
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