Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 12:01:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is it so hard to find information? Message-ID: <19980802120114.W11960@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199808020157.NAA09439@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 01:57:01PM %2B1200 References: <199808020157.NAA09439@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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On Sunday, 2 August 1998 at 13:57:01 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > Is anyone else finding it difficult to find information? > > For example, I went to install apache today. I had to search the mailing > list archives to find a list of steps to follow in order to install it. > That's great! > > But then apache reports that I must have DES first. Not a problem. But > I've just spend two hours trying to find instructions on how to install > DES. I've found nothing. It's so frustrating! > > I can't be the only one that finds this difficult to the extreme of > frustration. I can follow instructions. If only the instructions are > there to be found. If it makes you feel any better, I find the Apache documentation a *real pain*. IMO it's a good example of how HTML is used to produce something worse than what we had before. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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