Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 21:57:19 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@virginia.edu>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly prints FreeBSD book (WAS: Re: Oracle 7 on FreeBSD) Message-ID: <17327.894689839@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 May 1998 11:37:22 %2B0930." <19980509113722.Z12200@freebie.lemis.com>
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> Do they? This is the first complaint I've heard. But maybe they'll > let you into to storeroom to tear them out. Well, I don't want to air too much of our dirty laundry in the -advocacy list, but let's just say that when Jack, our dear departed V.P. of marketing, first got it in his head to add all those man pages to the first edition (and, as the story goes, without even informing yourself first) it was not greeted by general applause and cries of "man pages! bring us more printed man pages!" by the audience. I also don't take all the Walnut Creek tech support calls personally (in fact, I take them only when I absolutely can't avoid it :), but it's been my general impression from talking to those who do that customer sentiment leans less toward seeing printed man pages and more toward seeing the same space occupied by tutorials on setting up utilities like apache and natd or setting up mailing lists and playing with virtual mailertables in sendmail. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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