From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 12 3:27:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C4BE37B405; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 03:27:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6CAJtQ16878; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:19:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:19:55 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: John Kozubik Cc: Murray Stokely , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: comments please, and freebsdzine status ? Message-ID: <20010712111955.T97290@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20010711231317.B1666@meow.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2wYUONsACSj9OMJp" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from john@kozubik.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:39:21AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --2wYUONsACSj9OMJp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:39:21AM -0700, John Kozubik wrote: > Your point about the lack of HOWTO documents is well taken. In fact, > previously, I concluded that the lack of HOWTO documents was proof that a > conscious decision had been made at some point to _not_ have HOWTO > documents. I'm glad I was wrong. We sort of shot ourselves in the foot from a marketing point of view. =20 The Handbook has the content of 40 or 50 HOWTOs, but a single web link looks much less impressive than 50 of them. > With that in mind, I plan on writing many more HOWTO documents. Them's fighting words -- you realise that if you do that we may have to give you a commit bit. . . N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --2wYUONsACSj9OMJp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjtNecsACgkQk6gHZCw343UqAwCfbmgfnEin4NTv/9bcfuSXKgi/ 4eQAmgOGHm35y+t9SpH+ensWeb9hPQdp =zSVj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2wYUONsACSj9OMJp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message