[arch-dev-public] The June Newsletter is out, please chek it out

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Ronald van Haren<pressh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Ronald van Haren schrieb:
>>
>>>> <bugs>
>>>> It seems that I _always_ get "bad page" when clicking on any links
>>>> that lead to our forums. :-/
>>>
>>> Read the footer at the end of the newsletter. You should log in to the
>>> forums to be able to view offtopic forum posts.
>>
>> Why is that? I wanted to link a very very funny thread to some friends (none
>> of which has any relation to Arch) and they couldn't open it.
>>
>>
>
> I think it is because we want to be seen as a serious high quality
> distribution. AFAIR it has always been this way, not sure what the
> initial reason behind it was, but it is a forum 'feature'.

It was something like that. I think off-topic was higher traffic and
more indexed by google a while back, so searching for arch would throw
back some pretty stupid results and posts about tacos... :S