On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:35:54PM -0500, Paul Syverson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:53:08PM -0500, James Muir wrote: > > >Heheh, well speaking of dreaming big, while both what you and Jason > > >Edwards said are great goals to have, I think we shouldn't get > > >distracted from "stopping the bleeding" now with a few sentences right > > >up front while something more elaborate is devised (or a volunteer > > >steps up). > > > > > >The problem is if it isn't right on the download page and translated > > >into most languages, people will just assume they are good to go > > >without bothering to read the FAQ until something breaks (as Jason > > >pointed out). I also fall into this category with most software (even > > >stuff I develop for ;). > > > > Hear, hear! > > > > Yes. Three cheers. I think this is a fine interim thing to do. Maybe > I'm overly sold on install wizards but I think a step in the install > that says something about not being secure against responding web > sites by default and a pointer to a couple of things to do before > continuing is probably going to catch more people than anything on the > download page. Of course there will still be some (most?) people who > will just say "yeah, whatever" and click continue. But this is an > interim idea. (Now someone has to write installers in every > language. Perhaps _that_ could be added to the volunteer page. > In the interim interim, something on the download page will get > caught be our volunteer translators sooner than anything I said > above). Now that we all agree, could somebody draft the statement as a patch for the download page source at http://tor.eff.org/svn/website/en/download.wml ? Who will be first to get their patch to tor-webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx? Whose patch will be best? Only you can decide! ;) peace, -- Nick Mathewson
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