svn commit: r40985 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects

[Eitan Adler]

On 23 February 2013 20:11, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:
> This is still a book that is available online and may serve a useful
> purpose for people who are entirely new to BSD.  Maybe we should have a
> section for 'historical documentation' and move this book there?

We have http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/.  Maintaining older documentation
that contains larges amounts of dated information (as any book > N
years will) is not useful IMHO.  Perhaps I am wrong?

>> -      <li><p>The main newsgroup for &os; is <a
>> -         href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc</a>.
>> -       You might want to keep an eye on <a
>> -         href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce</a>
>> -       as well.</p></li>
>
> I still use comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and it is moderately active.  It
> doesn't have the traffic that it used to have a decade ago, but I think
> removing it altogether is a bit bad.
>
...
> I'm not entirely sure if I want to keep *all* references to Usenet
> groups.  But seeing 'comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc' go made me a bit sad.

So it seems this one in particular is active.  I have no objection to
restoring it.  I thought it was dead (and I checked at the time, my
news mirror must have been outdated).


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Eitan Adler
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