From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 3 20:46:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9895314DC5 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 20:46:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 19922 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 1999 04:44:35 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 19880 invoked by uid 0); 4 Apr 1999 04:44:34 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 4 Apr 1999 04:44:34 -0000 Message-ID: <3706EDFD.6010D9B1@uswest.net> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 20:43:41 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Greg Lehey , Donald Wilde , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Installation Guide Project [Was: Re: FreeBSD Adovcacy] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fumerola wrote: > Blah, blah, yadda, yadda. Instead of being a hero for the people try > updaing the existing documentation. > If you want to duplicate work, by all means, put it on your own website > and scream on the mailing lists "_MY_ work is better, go to > http://foo/FreeBSD-better-handbook/". > > Just don't expect anyone to 'cvs rm' the handbook (which isn't bad at all) > and import your newest brainstorm. > That would be because you are trying to replace an established work with > your pipedream. > This may sound like a quote from a jkh post, but: I haven't seen anything > tangible, just an "I don't like this", and when you've moved on to other > things, the handbook will still be here. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. Perhaps you'd like to read my other comments and elaboration about the IGP? I'm not trying to replace the Handbook. -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message