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- From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: FAQ maintainer needs some leverage on Dell
- Message-ID: <1hQTV3#7RBl8p3NVLTL0jQHhg4bcNdP=esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 17:50:39 GMT
- References: <sheldon.713408054@du139-205.cc.iastate.edu> <1992Aug10.205609.8242@sci34hub.sci.com>
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- In <1992Aug10.205609.8242@sci34hub.sci.com> Gary Heston wrote:
- > In article <sheldon.713408054@du139-205.cc.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
- >
- > | I finally found copies of the FAQ, hoping to find useful information
- > |to help me out in our own purchase.
- >
- > | I did find some very helpful information. However, I was also rather
- > |offended by the FAQ's. I suspect this is because of the tremendous
- > |amount of personal opinions, insults and other garbage.
- >
- > | I don't know about tradition. But is it possible to impeach a FAQ
- > |maintainer?
- >
- > It's always possible to start one of your own. I haven't gone through
- > the FAQ for c.u.sysv386 in detail recently, so I'm not aware of the
- > current wording.
- >
- > By all means, though, write up one of your own.
-
- Indeed. Write up your own if you don't like mine. Or, better yet, send
- me specific criticisms of what you consider "garbage" and help me improve
- the existing one. Lots of people do this every month, and haven't found
- me at all difficult to work with.
-
- One thing we should get straight to start with, though, is that I probably
- will not remove `personal opinions' from the FAQ. I believe I'm fulfilling my
- responsibility by *clearly marking* the parts which are opinion, as opposed
- to hard fact. If you don't like my opinions, you're free to ignore them.
- --
- Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
-