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Re: Question...



I've fixed this in the version submitted otday (along with adding CVS
information and a start on DocBook stuff).

-Mark

Joshua Drake wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> You are absolutely right. We should update the HOWTO-HOWTO.
> 
> J
> 
> User one account wrote:
> 
> > When I first thought about writing a HOWTO, I wrote to
> > linux-howto@metalab.unc.edu with my ideas etc. as described in the New Authors
> > section of the HOWTO-HOWTO.  After a lengthy wait, with no response, I wrote to
> > one of the more prolific contributors to ldp-discuss (not wanting to complain
> > publicly about stuff I was not familiar with) and was told on 31 Jan 2000:
> >
> > "This is deprecated ; I suggest you send the HOWTO to ldp-submit instead"
> >
> > Which I did.  I'm still not really happy with the response via lid-submit but
> > at least I got response.
> >
> > My question is, why, a month later, is the HOWTO-HOWTO, with its "depreciated"
> > address still the first link in the AUTHORS/CONTRIBUTE box at
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org and why hasn't it (the HOWTO-HOWTO) been changed to
> > reflect the proper submission procedures?
> >
> > Dead e-mail addresses and slow, or no, responses probably do more to alienate
> > new authors than any amount of sgml-izing or reformating requirements do.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Bob Schultz
> > rwschul@smart.net
> >
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