Web server is really good, but can't email webmaster
I originally tried to send this message to the Webmaster.
Perhaps someone could deliver the error report to
the maintainers of the redirector list on master.debian.org
and/or forward my _minor_ comments to the webmaster?
Alex.
------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
Date sent: 23 Dec 1998 20:03:36 -0000
From: MAILER-DAEMON@master.debian.org
To: qm!ALEX@news.cts.com
Subject: failure notice
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at master.debian.org.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<csmall@scooter.o.i.net>:
CNAME lookup failed temporarily. (#4.4.3)
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
From: Alex Perry <alex.perry@qm.com>
To: webmaster@debian.org
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:53:45 +0800
I may not have mentioned this before, but the whole
web server is well organised and is among the most
responsive I've found on the internet.
(1) Are you maintaining the 'nocache' tags correctly,
so that I can have my machine locally cache the site
and reduce loading on static pages in the usual way ?
(2) What really slows the whole site is when I hit the
'search' feature. I almost dread using it, partly
because it tends not to find what I'm looking for.
(3) I've just found the package search facility ...
I had been doing it manually with less and/or dselect.
THIS IS GREAT. But you knew that.
(4) Is there some way to browse the man pages on the site?
If there is, I haven't found it. It would be useful to read
the man pages in a package before I install it...
(5) "Wouldn't it be nice if" the autmatic page you generate
for a package has a link that fetches the "tar -tvf" listing?
If it groups the files into sections, according to whether the
first eight characters of the filename are identical, it
would be easy to use the jump-to-section feature at the top.
To be really sneaky, make the file names themselves be
scripts that retrieve the specific file from the package.
That would indirectly resolve my manpage request above too.
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