From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 1 19:31:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20228 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 19:31:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20221 for ; Sat, 1 Aug 1998 19:31:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA09540; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 12:01:16 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA21369; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 12:01:14 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980802120114.W11960@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 12:01:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is it so hard to find information? References: <199808020157.NAA09439@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808020157.NAA09439@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 01:57:01PM +1200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 2 August 1998 at 13:57:01 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > Is anyone else finding it difficult to find information? > > For example, I went to install apache today. I had to search the mailing > list archives to find a list of steps to follow in order to install it. > That's great! > > But then apache reports that I must have DES first. Not a problem. But > I've just spend two hours trying to find instructions on how to install > DES. I've found nothing. It's so frustrating! > > I can't be the only one that finds this difficult to the extreme of > frustration. I can follow instructions. If only the instructions are > there to be found. If it makes you feel any better, I find the Apache documentation a *real pain*. IMO it's a good example of how HTML is used to produce something worse than what we had before. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message