Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:59:46 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Erik Norgaard" <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: High levels of breakin attempts Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEAFFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <41E39196.6040909@locolomo.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Erik Norgaard > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:43 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: Gene; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG > Subject: Re: High levels of breakin attempts > > > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Yes Eric, just write a FAQ answer and post it per the following: > > http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html > > > > Thanks for volunteering! > > I'll take a look at it, but on the documentation list there > was recently > a discussion as to what to do with the FAQ: Merge it into the handbook > or a complete rewrite. > The FAQ and the handbook serve different needs. If the official FAQ is got rid of then someone else will just write one on their website and post it because the need is still there - and the info on theirs could be pretty -wrong-. It's better I think to have an official one even if every question is answered by "see section XYZ in the handbook, here's the link to it" > In many cases, questions should be merged into the handbook, after all > if a question continuously reappears so as to create an entry > in the FAQ > it may be because it is not explained well enough in the man-pages or > the handbook. > There's different ways of explaining the same thing, and an alterative way may be better for some people than others. There's plenty of people who read my book and felt it explained things better than the Handbook, and vis-versa. But both my book and the handbook had the same info in many cases - so what it boiled down to is that my style was easier for some people to absorb, the handbooks style was easier for other people to absorb. > But for the above question, I don't see this fit particularly > well into > the handbook. > Section 14 is where it would fit. > Not to offend OP, the occasional reappearance of a question is > fine, it > was only the short latancy (<5h) that made me think, "please, read the > list also". > You obviously forgot when you were in High School and the teacher gave the assignment for the next day, then at 2 minute intervals following this for about 10 minutes kids were asking "what's the assignment for tomorrow" ;-) Ted
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