From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UIlL5-0004VX-Js for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:39:51 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.214.178 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.214.178; envelope-from=etotheipi@gmail.com; helo=mail-ob0-f178.google.com; Received: from mail-ob0-f178.google.com ([209.85.214.178]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1UIlL4-0006fs-Pn for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:39:51 +0000 Received: by mail-ob0-f178.google.com with SMTP id wd20so3297885obb.9 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:39:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.60.20.225 with SMTP id q1mr7588739oee.31.1363894785439; Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.85] (c-76-111-96-126.hsd1.md.comcast.net. [76.111.96.126]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm8534419obj.7.2013.03.21.12.39.44 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <514B61EB.8060201@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:39:23 -0400 From: Alan Reiner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bitcoin Dev X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------040502030101060507040905" X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (etotheipi[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1UIlL4-0006fs-Pn Subject: [Bitcoin-development] New webpage: Offline Backups X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:39:51 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040502030101060507040905 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I noticed the new webpage is up on bitcoin.org. I still have mixed feelings about it, but I noticed there is a "You need to know!" section that suggests offline backups. As long as you are featuring Armory and Electrum on the "wallets" page, you should be including them in that blurb as options for offline storage. It's kind of silly to say "/You must do this! But we have no recommendations for how. At all. Good luck/!" At least have a dedicated page or (not-ideally, forum post) describing the various options and leads for them to follow for actually doing it. -Alan --------------040502030101060507040905 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I noticed the new webpage is up on bitcoin.org.   I still have mixed feelings about it, but I noticed there is a "You need to know!" section that suggests offline backups.

As long as you are featuring Armory and Electrum on the "wallets" page, you should be including them in that blurb as options for offline storage.  It's kind of silly to say "You must do this!  But we have no recommendations for how.  At all.  Good luck!"  At least have a dedicated page or (not-ideally, forum post) describing the various options and leads for them to follow for actually doing it. 

-Alan
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