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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:38:00 +1100
From:      Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
To:        "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Suggestion for the FreeBSD Book. 
Message-ID:  <199701282138.IAA26117@nemeton.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.854475021.List@journeyman> 

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On Tue, 28 Jan 97 10:06:14 Pacific Standard Time  "Sean J. Schluntz" wrote:

> What if the FreeBSD Book was published like some cookbooks.  A shrink wrapped 
> set of three ring hole punched papers with index pages and a small binder 
> (Fiction Hardback sized.)  Then people could subscribe to the updates, and 
> FreeBSD could just mail out the sections that have changed.  

Every vendor I've seen shipping documentation this way has stopped.

Too ugly, too time consuming, too expensive for the users who have to
do the updates.

Giles




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