Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 19:30:29 +0100 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r40985 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects Message-ID: <20130304183027.GB30542@saturn> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgkVwVpYE6quGU=-c_P3%2B7SLN8TX-0A0fn4Y4LfDe_AT5g@mail.gmail.com> References: <201302161636.r1GGaMOI055230@svn.freebsd.org> <20130224011108.GB10994@saturn> <CAF6rxgkVwVpYE6quGU=-c_P3%2B7SLN8TX-0A0fn4Y4LfDe_AT5g@mail.gmail.com>
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--W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline On 2013-02-25 23:29, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 23 February 2013 20:11, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> 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? > > >> - <li><p>The main newsgroup for &os; is <a > >> - href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc</a>. > >> - You might want to keep an eye on <a > >> - href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce</a> > >> - as well.</p></li> > > > > 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 news mirror must have been outdated). My apologies for taking so long to come up with a reasonable way to fix this. Does the following patch look ok? It reverts the removal of two still-active newsgroups, and joins them in one paragraph. One place to talk about Usenet should be enough IMO: --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/x-diff; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="www-usenet.diff" # HG changeset patch # User Giorgos Keramidas <gkeramidas@gmail.com> # Date 1362421435 -3600 # Mon Mar 04 19:23:55 2013 +0100 # Node ID 83f7f158f12a1be7f8d91364b78627e575a8786d # Parent 5069abd7a6b87f28cfd6e8ed8ca570472f71136c Revert parts of r40985 for Usenet groups that are still alive. diff -r 5069abd7a6b8 -r 83f7f158f12a en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml Mon Mar 04 16:14:13 2013 +0100 +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml Mon Mar 04 19:23:55 2013 +0100 @@ -95,6 +95,15 @@ answers via the <a href="&base;/search/search.html#mailinglists">search</a> page.</p></li> + <li><p>The main newsgroup for &os; is <a + href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc</a>. + General UNIX questions are dealt with in the newsgroup <a + href="news:comp.unix.questions">comp.unix.questions</a> and the + associated <a + href="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/unix-faq/faq/">FAQ</a>; + from the RMIT FTP site. Newbies are likely to be most + interested in sections 1 and 2 initially.</p></li> + <li><p><a href="&cgibase;/man.cgi">Manual pages</a> are good for reference but not always the best introduction for a novice. The more you work with man pages --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA--
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