discuss: Thread: Re: [OT] out of date howtos

Hi Peter,

I took a look at the HOWTO in question, and in section 1.2 there are
several other people who helped the author.  Have you tried to reach any
of them?  I see that some of them are from the same domain as the
author, but perhaps one of the other ones there?

If not, I've also replied with a cc to the discussion list for
suggestions.

Tabatha


On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 10:44, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> sorry for the off-topic post.
> 
> there are some howto's which are so out of date that they've become
> completely useless, and even worse, misleading and detrimental to our
> community.  i'm sure there are quite a few, but the ones i know about
> are the 3dfx, soundblaster-awe and hebrew howtos.
> 
> i just got hebrew working on my system, and it was quite a challange
> since i've been pretty english-centric and had not the slightest clue
> about what ucs, utf, unicode and keymaps were when i began.
> 
> on a lark, i sent an email to the maintainer of the hebrew howto a few
> weeks ago asking if the howto is still being maintained.  the last
> update was in 1995.  things have changed considerably in the past *year*
> let alone the past 8 years.
> 
> i've gotten no response.
> 
> i've been playing around with the idea of updating this howto.
> 
> are there any provisions for "hijacking" someone else's howto?
> 
> pete
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