discuss: Net-HOWTO (was Re: Bug#178233: doc-linux-text: Net-HOWTO corruption)
Subject:
Re: Net-HOWTO (was Re: Bug#178233: doc-linux-text: Net-HOWTO corruption)
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
20 Sep 2004 06:46:26 -0000
Message-Id: <20040920011423.GA802@davespc>
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 06:24:35PM -0000, G Ferguson / LDP wrote:
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> ---------- Original Message -------------
> Subject: Re: Net-HOWTO (was Re: Bug#178233: doc-linux-text: Net-HOWTO corruption)
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:40:40 -0400
> From: "Ian! D. Allen" ####@####.####
> To: ####@####.####
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> > > Please put the Net-HOWTO into the "unmaintained" section so that someone
> > > can fix the corruption in the file?
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:17:27PM -0000, G Ferguson / LDP wrote:
> Thanks. That does help. I'll see if I can fix what is broken.
I copied the Net-3-HOWTO by Terry Dawson from the Internet and compared
it to Net-HOWTO (which is the new name for Net-3-HOWTO). Using wdiff I
found that the two are mostly identical, save for many cosmetic changes
made by Poet. These changes included added commas, removing the word
"then", etc. and don't seem to improve the readability of the HOWTO much.
There were a few substantive changes but a major change was the adding
of pleas to pay Poet via paypal. These pleas (and urls to click on)
were inserted at 43 different places in the HOWTO (per grep -c).
So I think that Poet just did a minimum amount of improvement on it and
sort of turned it into a "fund raising" product with all the pleas for
money.
The reason that I'm interested in this HOWTO is that when Poet took it
over, I had also found a volunteer in my local LUG that was willing to
take it over. I don't think he is around anymore but I plan to ask on
the LUG mailing list if someone is willing to take it over.
David Lawyer
