From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 25 1:17:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from morag.kenderhome.com (morag.kenderhome.com [216.94.125.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7DF37B4C5 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cdewyen.kenderhome.com (cr272745-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.107.154]) by morag.kenderhome.com (8.10.2/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e9P8JR202952; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 04:19:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20001025041705.033659b0@mail.kenderhome.com> X-Sender: tass@mail.kenderhome.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 04:17:45 -0400 To: jim@osd.bsdi.com, Murray Stokely From: Tass Chapman Subject: Re: Greetings Cc: Jordan Hubbard , doc@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20001024191228.A20180@envy.geekhouse.net> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20001024132306.033ab910@mail.kenderhome.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The digital gods saw this being spewed out by Jim Mock: >On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 at 19:05:47 -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > > The number of sections that are marked as "to be written" has > > diminished in recent months but a lot of the information is still > > hopelessly out of date or poorly written. For example, here is a > > quote from the serial communication chapter "This document is written > > based on the author's experience with FreeBSD versions 1.0, 1.1, and > > 1.1.5.1". > >Yes, this is definitely a major candidate for updating or nuking >completely. I'm not sure enough people even use it to be worth >updating. Besides, if it's updated, or nuked, I'll be able to close the >PR that Murray opened a while ago pointing out how crufty it is :-) > >That said, how many of you would object to removing this section >completely? We could always add it back later if someone updates it, >I'm just starting to think that no info on it is better than 5+ year old >info.. > >- jim Based on how often I have used anything in that section .. go nuts. I would rather see no info, than no useful info. >-- >jim mock work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org >http://soupnazi.org/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com -- |Tass Chapman| tass@kenderhome.com : PGP key @ pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371| | http://www.kenderhome.com : KEYID: 0x5BC152A1 | |ICQ UIN:394570 | -- Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint. -- Mark Twain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message