From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Mar 19 15:53:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from balzac.cybercable.fr (balzac.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4DC037B71B for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:53:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clefevre@poboxes.com) Received: (qmail 38385387 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2001 23:47:49 -0000 Received: from d165.dhcp212-231.cybercable.fr (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.231.165]) (envelope-sender ) by balzac.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Mar 2001 23:47:49 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f2JNlmq74674; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:47:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from clefevre@poboxes.com) To: Steve Kargl Cc: Nik Clayton , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Posting FAQ to newsgroups References: <20010317150940.A30304@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20010317233642.A10885@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010317160309.A30693@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C Reply-To: Cyrille Lefevre In-Reply-To: <20010317160309.A30693@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> From: Cyrille Lefevre Mail-Copies-To: never Date: 20 Mar 2001 00:47:46 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Steve Kargl writes: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 11:36:42PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > > Shouldn't be a problem. Which newsgroups? Is this something you plan > > on doing regularly? > > comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce > comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc from my point of view, FAQs have nothing to do in .announce. .announce are just announces. Linux guys have linux.answers. others just post in the most relevant newsgroup (comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc in our case), comp.answers and news.answers. > If no one objects, I'll post it once a month. I'll generate > the FAQ from whatever is in the source tree when I get around > to formatting it. Wolfram Schneider posts a list of the > new/updated ports every 2 weeks to c.u.b.f.a, but that might > be too often for the FAQ. look at comp.answers, FAQs are usually posted on a monthly basis. no need to go faster. they are not moving as fast as new/updated ports. but please, don't post in .announce. thanks. Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@poboxes.com UNIX is user-friendly; it's just particular work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr about who it chooses to be friends with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message