Re: SourceForge's download links

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: SourceForge's download links
Date: 21:06 on 03 Feb 2005
You're too kind.

> point, oh no.  When you finally reach the head of the queue you have to
> click on YET ANOTHER LINK to download the file.

Which you don't notice, so it times out, and you have to start over.

> So let's take a tally.
> 
> Click.
> Registration with default mailing lists.
> Click.
> Click.
> Click.
> Wait queue.

Walk away.

Come back.

Discover you timed out.

Click.
Click.
Click.
Wait queue.

Attend to child with cut finger.

Get back.

Discover you timed out again.

Click.
Click.
Click.
Wait queue.
> Click.

Forget what you wanted the file for.

Stick it in "Downloads-ToDo".

Go do something actually productive until you remember what that was all
about. Next time, bribe kid to download it.

There's stuff above here

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