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<li><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: Slashdot reply final</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Guylhem Aznar <<A HREF="mailto:guylhem@metalab.unc.edu">guylhem@metalab.unc.edu</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:02:43 +0100</li>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 01:08:46AM -0800, David Lawyer wrote:
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> Others are outside our scope while others can be solved if we get more
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> people to help in the effort.
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added
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> Many of your comments were important. Don't say this but some
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> comments were little more than unreasoned, and nonsensical flames.
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flames go to /dev/null
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> But if you use DOCBOOK it can also be a HOWTO.
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I explained this on the next chapter
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> we will not process it until the errors are fixed.
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added
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> enough people doing it. It would be better to say "we would like to be
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> able to have our peer review team proofread each submitted
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> Most readers are not about to go to all the work to update an outdated
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> document and many of them don't know enough about it to even be able
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> to do this. So we should no ask them so bluntly to do this.
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Yes we should, if 100 try and only 10 succeed, there will be 10 new
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authors.
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> revised. There is an ongoing discussion of license issues, however.
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> Also, the above might tend to scare away some potentially good
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> authors. For example, one could take over the maintenance of an
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> existing doc without a thorough technical knowledge of the subject.
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> Then one could improve their technical knowledge by feedback from
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> readers, surfing the web, reading parts of books, etc. We can accept
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> below-average writers and help them become above-average writers.
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There's no point lying to them. Being an author is hard, and they'll
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find it in a way or another.
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Moreover, it should have been the final version ; I can't include fixes
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each day or it will never be submitted.
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Guylhem P. Aznar <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org">http://www.linuxdoc.org</A>
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guylhem \@/ metalab.unc.edu <A HREF="http://metalab.unc.edu/guylhem">http://metalab.unc.edu/guylhem</A>
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<li><strong><a name="01435" href="msg01435.html">RE: Web site design and Slashdot reply .3</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="01469" href="msg01469.html">Slashdot reply final</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Guylhem Aznar <guylhem@metalab.unc.edu></li></ul></li>
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