[Fsf-friends] very poor image
Mahesh T. Pai
paivakil@vsnl.net
Wed Jun 23 08:34:21 IST 2004
Anwar said on Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:53:59AM +0800,:
> FSF India website. Unfortunately I am not a good designer.
Anwar, FSF-I is a voluntary organisation. _before_ you make public
statements about volunteers' abilities. You would be justified if you
had made an alternative _suggestions_ to solve this issue. True, you
raised a complaint that has apparently not been rectified, but did
you provide a solution?
If you do not have a solution, do _NOT_ talk about individuals'
abilities. Confine your complaint to the institution.
> Also till yesterday the site had a w3c html mark on it
Yes, you definitely have a point here; the -web archives show that at
least 3 people have pointed out that the pages are _not_ W3C
compliant. If W3C compliance was a problem we ought to have removed
the logo from the non-compliant pages. But can somebody come up with a
W3C compliant html template, a w3c compliant css and a sensible
directory heerarchy for the FSF pages so that webmasters' lives is
made easier?
> http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-*(discuss,friends,...)
> all had a link to http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/
(This leaves me scratching my head ....) I think these pages are
autogenerated by mailman. IIRC, we had upgraded mailman sometime back.
AFAIK, GNUmailman has some problems importing the settings for an
already installed version. Nagarjun did ask for help with some issues
sometime back; but do not know if this particular issue is
related.
> Well the thing is that there are other places that have link to
> individual mailing lists like fsf-friends. What you have done is
> not rectification but I could rather call it a detour to the
> archives so that you
Mmmm... do not seem to be multiple symlinks, but contain same info, it
seems.
> How come the fsf keeps amateurs as its webmasters.
coz. we all are amateurs at one time or other. And volunteers for the
GNU always.
> Well I not saying that I am good because I dont know much about web
> designing, but I hate things that are done without perfection.
Not even god is perfect. If god was perfect, man would not have been
so imperfect.
Imperfections are natural outcome of being human. The solution is
give us concrete suggestions. Sans suggestions, at least do not cast
aspersions on individuals who are contributing their mite.
It would be a different case if you had provided solutions which were
turned down.
Ask not what FSF can do for you. Tell us what you can do for the GNU.
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