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:
30 Sep 2004 06:08:29 -0000
Message-Id: <20040930061218.GA782@davespc>
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:19:39AM -0500, ####@####.#### wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: G Ferguson / LDP
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 6:45 PM
> > To: ####@####.####
> > Cc: OR, Senthil; ####@####.####
> > Subject: RE: Net-HOWTO (was Re: Bug#178233: doc-linux-text:
> > Net-HOWTO corruption)
> >
> >
> > I have reverted the Net-HOWTO document back to previous the
> > "NET3-4-HOWTO"
> > instance (Aug 1999), until a new maintainer is found and a
> > new revision of the
> > Net-HOWTO can be published.
> >
> > The source file corruption is no longer a problem, nor are
> > the donation links present.
> >
> > The NET3-4-HOWTO is in Linuxdoc SGML, the Net-HOWTO was in
> > DocBook SGML.
> > I have kept both copies available in our CVS tree for
> > whomever ends up maintaining the document.
> >
> > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO.html
> >
>
> The current document looks good.
> The contents of previous NET-HOWTO was little different from the current
> one(NET3-4-HOWTO).
>
> Kindly let me know if be allowed to maintain the NET3-4-HOWTO. As
> discussed, I shall check with other Networking related HOWTOs and
> discuss and decide upon Pre-requisite reading (Networking-Overview
> etc) and provide link to Other howtos at appropriate places.
I was about to ask if anyone on my LUG mailing list wanted to do it.
I would like to see someone do it that has some background in the
subject, like having read a textbook on it (such as Tanenbaum's: Computer
Networks). What's your background on this?
David Lawyer
