From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 28 13:19:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A9F016A4CE for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 13:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30C443D41 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 13:19:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i4SKJLE8029073; Fri, 28 May 2004 15:19:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <40B79EC5.3030802@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:19:17 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040520) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mm0202@ispwest.com References: <20040528201621.6955.qmail@web41609.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040528201621.6955.qmail@web41609.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-doc@freebsd.org cc: "Matthew, Kristina and Ethan" Subject: Re: to whom it may concern X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 20:19:42 -0000 Matthew, Kristina and Ethan wrote: >I appologize if this email goes astray somewhere it >shouldn't. > >My name is Matthew and I received my BA in English Lit >and Composition. Since college I have had a variety >of jobs; technical writer, tech support, chef, truck >driver... etc. I am also a FreeBSD newbie of about a >year (4.4 on a compaq desktop w/pII 400mhz etc) and I >am all self taught, relying mostly on available >documentation to solve my problems... it has been a >great help to me and I'd like to give something back >to the Doc-Project. > >I am afraid I don't have anything in the way of new >info to add... I'd like to offer my skills as a >proof-reader and editor. I would certainly be atuned >to the "newbie" audience and might be able to re-work >some sections to make them less confusing... anything >along those lines.... > >i don't know if help like this is needed. if not, let >me just say, "Thank you for helping me along. I'm >always available." > > You could start by coming up with patches for typos, bugs, etc, found in the handbook. Here's one you could start with: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html See the paragraph that starts with "The utility mdconfig(8) is very useful, however it asks many command lines to create a file-backed file system." Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------