X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/c43991d1eefd6af2acfa09a14f75b2fedcd7ad01..1b56c05584652dba13d7f4f54e7ac2560dab92fe:/doc/feedback.but diff --git a/doc/feedback.but b/doc/feedback.but index 9c1ab90d..0f1d0f34 100644 --- a/doc/feedback.but +++ b/doc/feedback.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: feedback.but,v 1.5 2002/06/08 09:00:00 simon Exp $ +\versionid $Id: feedback.but,v 1.8 2002/08/12 14:08:55 simon Exp $ \A{feedback} Feedback and bug reporting @@ -70,12 +70,10 @@ file. \cw{BMP}s have no compression and they are \e{much} larger than other image formats such as PNG, TIFF and GIF. Convert the file to a properly compressed image format before sending it. -Please don't mail us executables, at all. For security reasons, it -would be really unwise of us to run executables we receive from -unknown people by e-mail, so there's no point sending them to us. At -some point, indeed, we hope to block all incoming e-mail containing -executables, as a defence against the vast numbers of e-mail viruses -we receive every day. +Please don't mail us executables, at all. Our mail server blocks all +incoming e-mail containing executables, as a defence against the +vast numbers of e-mail viruses we receive every day. If you mail us +an executable, it will just bounce. If you have made a tiny modification to the PuTTY code, please send us a \e{patch} to the source code if possible, rather than sending @@ -300,6 +298,17 @@ Of course, if the web site has some other error (Connection Refused, 404 Not Found, 403 Forbidden, or something else) then we might \e{not} have noticed and it might still be worth telling us about it. +If you want to report a problem with our web site, check that you're +looking at our \e{real} web site and not a mirror. The real web site +is at +\W{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/}\c{http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/}; +if that's not where you're reading this, then don't report the +problem to us until you've checked that it's really a problem with +the main site. If it's only a problem with the mirror, you should +try to contact the administrator of that mirror site first, and only +contact us if that doesn't solve the problem (in case we need to +remove the mirror from our list). + \H{feedback-permission} Asking permission for things PuTTY is distributed under the MIT Licence (see \k{licence} for