Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 01:58:37 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 17:47 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> >> You should have been informed about this when you subscribed.
> 
> Ric Moore:
> > Tim, I went to the subscribe area and didn't the the link nor the
> > suggestions listed there. Sacrileges! :) Ric 
> 
> On most other lists that I subscribe to, you get this kind of
> information when you subscribe as part of the process (on the
> subscription page, or the confirmation emails).
> 
> I know you don't like "shoulds," but the subscription process really
> should provide usage information to the new subscriber as part of the
> process.  It's rather hard for newcomers to know what's expected if they
> were never informed about it.  And it's no good putting the information
> somewhere else that they haven't seen before, or during, subscribing.

This time this "should" should be allowed! :) I agree, when you get your
subscription confirmed notice, have the both the verbiage included in it
as well as the link in the subscribe page. Good ideas Tim. Ric

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