CentOS docs - Jun 2018 - reference page for Apache test page & the project

Some or all of you may be aware that people often contact the CentOS
Project because they come across the default Apache server test page on
a non-centos.org domain.

In trying to contact the domain owner, they mistakenly contact us.  This
is despite the language at the bottom of the page telling them what they
are seeing and not to contact us about it.

This has come up for me in responding to GDPR requests; many incoming
emails are of this variety.

I went looking for a reference page to point people at about this
situation, and not finding one I create this one:

https://wiki.centos.org/ApacheTestPage/OnUnaffiliatedDomains

Figuring that the problem is that people are not reading the whole page
before or otherwise are stuck and contact us anyway ...

* What can be done to improve the page I wrote?
* How can it be more clear?
* Is there a better page I can point at?

Thanks for your input,

- Karsten
-- 
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 04:58:21PM -0700, Karsten Wade
wrote:
> * Is there a better page I can point at?
'Better' is quite subjective; however this all goes back to 

https://web.archive.org/web/20060523223519/https://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127

and is as good of a reference as any.

I would urge someone to scrape the gist of that thread and preserve it
on wiki.c.o somewhere.

If no one else does I will do it later today or tomorrow when I have a
bit of time and motivation.




							John

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On 23/06/18 21:03, John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 04:58:21PM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
>> * Is there a better page I can point at?
> 'Better' is quite subjective; however this all goes back to 
>
>
https://web.archive.org/web/20060523223519/https://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127
>
> and is as good of a reference as any.
>
> I would urge someone to scrape the gist of that thread and preserve it
> on wiki.c.o somewhere.
>
> If no one else does I will do it later today or tomorrow when I have a
> bit of time and motivation.
You know, perhaps this is approaching this from the wrong direction.
Maybe the correct solution would be to change that welcome page to be
more explicit about what it is and why it's there so the question
doesn't arise in the first place. It *is* better than it used to be but
it could be better. If we just move the "The CentOS Project has nothing
to do with this website or its content, it just provides the software
that makes the website run." up to immediately after the "This server
powered by CentOS" under the Testing 123... heading.

Does the attached patch make it more clear more easily? It gets the
essential message into the top paragrpah which is the one that gets
read. Having it off the bottom of the page where it resides in the
current version means you're reliant on people advancing to the next page.

Trevor
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