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

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2013-02-25 23:29, Eitan Adler <eadler at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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 news mirror must have been outdated).

My apologies for taking so long to come up with a reasonable way to fix
this.  Does the following patch look ok?  It reverts the removal of two
still-active newsgroups, and joins them in one paragraph.  One place to
talk about Usenet should be enough IMO:

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