On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:20:52 -0500, Joshua Hutchinson <joshua@hutchinson.net> wrote:
You know, it's like you're deliberately trying to make me angry!
NO ONE HAS SUGGESTED SWEEPING IT AWAY!
In fact, every person that has suggested a change of some kind has advocated putting >the obsolete format document somewhere accessible. Just not right out in front where an >uninformed visitor will see it, click it and get frustrated. It reflects poorly on PG as a whole >and turns off potential users from ever coming back.
Given my rather infrequent posting to this list (although long time lurking from a variety of email addresses) I'm rather hesitant to throw more fuel on the fire. But I have to agree with the idea behind Joshu Hutchinson and Jon Noring's suggestions. The folio is confusing when it is the first return result, and people do have a tendency to hit the first result. I believe Greenstone (the new software behind the scenes at gutenberg.org) allows pretty precise sorting of returns on various conditions. Would it be possible to always return the text format as the first return? This would help highlight the importance of the text format without having to decide when a format is outdated or unsupported, needs to be moved to the suggested "old" directory, or a "stupid, stupid formats" page. I know my first thought when seeing the folio was to think "That's got to be an error, who would be crazy enough to publish that as a folio". But my excuse was it as a long day ;). Jon Gorman