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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Subject: Re: Handbook obsolescence scan: "The vinum Volume Manager"
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On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Eitan Adler wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
>> Moving it to an article should cover all the bases.  It won't be first-line
>> information in the Handbook, but can still be found.  And eventually, if not
>> already, we can have an archive section for obsolete information that may
>> still be useful to someone, somewhere, but not most users.
>
> I find that articles are less often
> - updated
> - translated
>
> so I think that "downgrading" the content to an article is a good step
> if we think the information is not useful in the general case.
>
> However, if the information is obsolete we already have
> http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/ and it should be removed entirely.

I kind of wish you had pointed that out earlier today, before I made an 
article version of the vinum chapter.  It's ready to commit, but even 
easier to delete.

Speaking of that link: can it be found on from
http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html ?