Re: [Boost-users] Re: The Boost Community

From: Eric Goebelbecker (egoebelbecker_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-04 14:27:57

Maybe someone could convince the boost.org webmaster to due a redirect for us?

Something like:

http://www.boost.org/wiki  

I also think that adding a link to the wiki somewhere in the first 1/3
of the main Boost page
would increase traffic immensely.

On 5/4/05, Jon Kalb <Kalb_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 5/4/05 8:05 AM, "Fernando Cacciola" <fernando_cacciola_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> 
> > From my own personal view I think the main answer to this question is lack
> > of visibility.
> > So a related question is why isn't the wiki as visible as it should?
> > Users in this thread already mentioned that they were unaware of the
> > existence of the wiki.
> 
> We could change the configuration of the footer for messages sent to this
> list to include the wiki's URL.
> 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Boost-users mailing list
> > Boost-users_at_[hidden]
> > http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users
> 
> Could be something like:
> 
>  ______________________________________________________________
>  Boost-users_at_[hidden]                   http://boost.org
>  http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users
>  http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl
> 
> I'm not crazy about adding more text to the footer and I'm not certain that
> anyone actually ever *reads* the footer, but perhaps it would raise the
> visibility of the wiki. (I wish the URL wasn't so long.)
> 
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