Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:17:21 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -question on -doc Message-ID: <82229.913951041@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:59:38 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812171437250.5681-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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> It does seem that the list charters have a very "stay the hell out of > here, here, there and here" attitude to them. It is my guess that they > were made that way because someone wanted it to be very clear that you > should not be sending things to -hackers, -core, or -security to protect > the S/N ratio. Correct. > What are we trying to accomplish? Are we trying to make absolutuley > certain that people don't write to the "sacred" technical lists? Or are we > trying to make it clear where is the proper place to write? Both. :-) > Let's make it clear where the proper place to write is. If we want to keep > technical lists seperate then lets physically seperate them on the html > document. There is no sense in forcing a general purpose user to pour > through all of the lists summaries. I wouldn't mind this at all. If someone had to work a bit more to find -current and -hackers, said work also hopefully educating them to a level sufficient for meaningful discourse in the technical lists, then I certainly wouldn't object. > I don't know jack about SGML. I wish I did. If I post an HTML doc on my That is easily recified. Go off and meet Jack. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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