From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 26 04:30:00 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31242584 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:30:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f43.google.com (mail-wg0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05E5BD7 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:29:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id e12so2972358wge.34 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:29:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=x-received:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=X0KxR5wAAzvdxdGB+VAFb8OiQcL92eIIsAgJwYH4hvU=; b=Vp1nc6sjkoDG4A3QxPQNjyvYNLyypVW2M1FAKT/OGL0LskUWX0oi65WPnlYynS9ueb 65x3ofVo6ruRuG81B0q/8ahbS3+NUZmyKgabV6mH/hKmRNolPbuXXG1F5vhUl/T4oMwx j15G0F7ExCgwZCCs08BgqPvQXn9JVWZEwq7yk= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=X0KxR5wAAzvdxdGB+VAFb8OiQcL92eIIsAgJwYH4hvU=; b=A+jJtWB9Bc2PfwtgCMjtRGNK5p1opBL5loFcabFcJDVIWMFBCuORQ8/Cf5heJW/2CB 7su4I6bijLBYkfp3FBOFc7EaJEC87E1R9c9YKE3hAARnYzTyJE9ZgnpwBHwbnFeSJ5eQ t71J2Xde0r0tBJEvuxycoP/5tnUB/Fm6JmyHHmlcBqCqbu2v2sC+jZVoVGvFkKDxjGOV o5WH4XXQ6q6ha2gYWoHm8oQ0ZuPLRUYAx5KmJr3tLxIxPoBRjztJsgAKPIFL8ZCiNUtg 4No0hFELJ+uIsEBbnXUtiR0NJymFr53/BBNYye1QHpmB6EgxXopTX0DT+ONBei3IdDCI oVJA== X-Received: by 10.180.93.234 with SMTP id cx10mr16571109wib.34.1361852998692; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:29:58 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: lists@eitanadler.com Received: by 10.194.122.201 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:29:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20130224011108.GB10994@saturn> References: <201302161636.r1GGaMOI055230@svn.freebsd.org> <20130224011108.GB10994@saturn> From: Eitan Adler Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:29:27 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: BqE-K0tmEq4MItyIIbG9lMKHF0s Message-ID: Subject: Re: svn commit: r40985 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects To: Giorgos Keramidas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnKbuCO0qIEvBwIvNyNpzCiCzy5DRtzPmGS2rgrKAAmWOMPXtTEoWgO3JjitejMoR+6KWKD Cc: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:30:00 -0000 On 23 February 2013 20:11, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > This is still a book that is available online and may serve a useful > purpose for people who are entirely new to BSD. Maybe we should have a > section for 'historical documentation' and move this book there? We have http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/. Maintaining older documentation that contains larges amounts of dated information (as any book > N years will) is not useful IMHO. Perhaps I am wrong? >> -

  • The main newsgroup for &os; is > - href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. >> - You might want to keep an eye on > - href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce >> - as well.

    • > > I still use comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and it is moderately active. It > doesn't have the traffic that it used to have a decade ago, but I think > removing it altogether is a bit bad. > ... > I'm not entirely sure if I want to keep *all* references to Usenet > groups. But seeing 'comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc' go made me a bit sad. So it seems this one in particular is active. I have no objection to restoring it. I thought it was dead (and I checked at the time, my news mirror must have been outdated). -- Eitan Adler Source, Ports, Doc committer Bugmeister, Ports Security teams