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<li><em>To</em>: David Lawyer <<A HREF="mailto:dave@lafn.org">dave@lafn.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: HTML HOWTOs and Re: CD edition</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Robert Dubinski <<A HREF="mailto:tech@studsys.mscs.mu.edu">tech@studsys.mscs.mu.edu</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:05:14 -0500</li>
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<li><em>In-reply-to</em>: <<a href="msg02118.html">20000501174002.A899@localhost</a>>; from dave@lafn.org on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 05:40:02PM -0700</li>
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On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 05:40:02PM -0700, David Lawyer wrote:
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> There are many sites that take our HTML HOWTOs and directly put them
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> on the Internet. They are not mirror sites and the collection is
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> usually out-of-date (in some cases a few years out-of-date). Some of
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> them have some sort of advertising (or links to advertising). Many of
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> these sites may do more harm than good especially since people get
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> stale versions.
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I've encountered more than my fair share of these. I agree the
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sites with outdated docs can do more harm than good. ("What, Linux
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doesn't support USB?!", etc).
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I think the best way to combat this is to simply recommend in the HOWTO
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HOWTO or wherever that all LDP submissions have a section or paragraph
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which state where to find the latest versions of the document. This
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includes both the location at LDP and any distribution site of the
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document author.
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I don't think there will be a way to stop someone or some organization
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from mirroring the documents entirely, and we may never get all those
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old mirror sites to update or take down their files, so let's look at
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all our docs and make sure a user who stumbles upon a future outdated
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mirror will know where to go for recent info.
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I'll volunteer to do a quick audit of the LDP docs for such an info
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section if nobody else wants to.
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-Robb
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- Robert S. Dubinski, Comp. Systems Tech for MSCS Dept, Marquette University -
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- Email me: tech@mscs.mu.edu Home page at: <A HREF="http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~tech">http://www.mscs.mu.edu/~tech</A> -
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<li><strong><a name="02083" href="msg02083.html">HTML HOWTOs and Re: CD edition</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Lawyer <dave@lafn.org></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="02118" href="msg02118.html">Re: HTML HOWTOs and Re: CD edition</a></strong>
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