On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 06:22 PM, Scott Taylor wrote:

>>>> You're either checking the wrong place or you're not checking hard
>>>> enough.
>>>
>>> Thanks. That reply is about as useful as the Mandrake web site.
>>
>> Yeah, it's pretty hard to find. Go to MandrakeSecure, go to
>> Advisories, click on 7.2,
>
> That's as far as I got...
>
>> scroll down the list.
>
> That's what I was missing, the list. Now that I go back there I
> actually see the list. still...

Was it not obvious that it was a list of advisories? I'm assuming if
you clicked on 7.2 you at least saw the top of the list. What, in your
opinion, can make it easier to view/understand? You say "still..." so
I can tell you're not entirely satisfied.

I do have ideas on how to improve the advisories themselves, I hadn't
thought that the presentation (ie. the list of advisories for each
distrib) was a problem, but perhaps I'm mistaken.

>> You'll see two openssl
>> entries one after the other. The most recent links to
>> http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/2002/MDKSA-2002-046-
>> 1.php?dis=7.2
>>
>> Took me all of about 45 seconds to find it.
>
> Less then 10 seconds got me to the page, the first time, and I never
> got past what (I thought) I was looking for, the FTP list. I never
> even scrolled down past there.

Ok, should the info currently on the top of the list be moved to the
bottom? Should it instead be on the advisory "index" page instead of
each individual list? Looking now with 1024x768 I can see that none of
the actual packages are shown, the very bottom line is the headers for
the table (Advisory Date, Package Name, etc.).

I am interested in how to make the presentation of advisories a little
more presentable so any constructive ideas you have for implementing it
better is of interest to me.

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