Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 15:02:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Tom Collins <oljeep.collins@gte.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mbertsch@oreilly.com Subject: Re: interested in writing articles... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006011458370.20526-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <3936AD17.7F57D312@gte.net>
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> Personally, I'd like to see a good article on configuring a > mailserver, like how to get sendmail, qpopper & fetchmail or > procmail all working together properly in a "newbie" > oriented type of style. > Personally I've gone thru the faq at sendmail.org and many > "how-to" sites about this process and most are either > missing some key info or are directed toward users that have > been using unix for years. The problem with alot of documentation in the computer field is and for years has been the assumption by the author that you already know everything and are just looking up a forgotten detail. (whether its a conscious decision or not) I THINK its just the regular human tendency to assume what assumables are, and due to the fact that software authors often have to write those things, and that software authors are not necesarily in an environment where alot of their resultant end users are. (A good example of the latter issue is just the design of smtp itself and security issues arising from the change of its use from universities and govt offices to the commercial arena) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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