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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:09:50 -0400
From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:47:12 -0400 (EDT)
"Steve Bertrand" <steveb@eagle.ca> wrote:

> > I don't know if I agree with merging all the content of the FAQ
> > into the handbook, but I _will_ agree that the FAQ needs to die.
> > It is a complete grab-bag of 'stuff' and as such is pretty close
> > to unreadable.
> >
> > A completely cool project would be to find something that would
> > allow us to grind up the contents of the FAQ, the release notes,
> > the hardware support info in the (4) manpages, and probably other
> > things that I'm forgetting, and spit them out as a knowledge base.
> >
> > Does anyone here know of any other Open Source project that is
> > doing something like that?
> 
> How about a wiki. Spamassassin uses one, and it seems quite intuitive.
> 
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/
> 
> Steve

Stupid PHP based faq-o-matic things.

-- 
Tom Rhodes