From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jun 30 17:55:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from relay04.netaddress.usa.net (relay04.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C5FF156ED for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:55:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesus.monroy@usa.net) Received: (qmail 24673 invoked from network); 1 Jul 1999 00:55:12 -0000 Received: from www0a.netaddress.usa.net (204.68.24.30) by outbound.netaddress.usa.net with SMTP; 1 Jul 1999 00:55:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 14503 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Jul 1999 00:55:11 -0000 Message-ID: <19990701005511.14502.qmail@www0a.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.30 by www0a via web-mailer() on Thu Jul 1 00:55:11 GMT 1999 Date: 30 Jun 99 17:55:11 PDT From: Jesus Monroy To: Wes Peters Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: [FreeBSD Man Pages]]] Cc: Sue Blake , Konrad Heuer , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer () Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters wrote: > Jesus Monroy wrote: > > = > > Sue Blake wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 02:28:16AM -0700, Jesus Monroy wrote: > > > > Konrad Heuer wrote: > > > > > > > > > > To my mind *one* of the points where FreeBSD is really good are= > > > > > the man > > > > > pages. I don't have a proposal how to use this fact for > > > > > promoting > > > > > FreeBSD, > > > > > but my intention is to mention that strength of FreeBSD here. > > > > > > > > > Very incorrect. Just a few days ago I show that 15% > > > > of the online whatis(1) and man(1) records where > > > > incorrect. > > > > > > For one definition of "incorrect". What you showed does not detract= > > > from the point that Konrad is making. > > > > > > > > Wait a minute. Where is this arrogant attitude coming from! > > The results plainly should wrong pages index, bad references > > and missing descriptions. > > = > > Please explain your idea (or definition of "correct"). > > (Please note I know where all the IEEE papers are on > > correct. So think this through before you popoff.) > = > Hey, Jesus, why don't you go fix the pages instead of "popoff"ing. > You arrogant asshole. > = > In case you hadn't noticed it, your survey gathered nothing but > yawns because you didn't proffer any help in fixing the situation. > = Yawns... That certainly does not seem to be the case after the last 50 or so messages on this mailing list. = I think more along the line I'm stepping on toes and egos, including yours. > Sue has helped hundreds, perhaps thousands of clueless newbies, in many= > cases by teaching them to read the man pages provided with FreeBSD. = > Nobody has made any claims they are perfect, but the are a substantial > resource and should be stressed as one of the resources making FreeBSD > a great system. > = Yes, greatly despised(sp?) and loved system. > Put up or shut up. > = I am putting up... would you like more of the same. I got fixes, where are your answers? --- "I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, = pop-up-happy dungeon like NT." http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9809of1.shtml ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message