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Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:16:56 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Sean Chittenden <seanc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <20030408091656.GA13794@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030407204931.GF79923@perrin.int.nxad.com>
References:  <200304072043.h37KhjrK033251@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030407204931.GF79923@perrin.int.nxad.com>

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On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:49:31PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > seanc       2003/04/07 13:43:45 PDT
> > 
> >   FreeBSD doc repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources chapter.sgml 
> >   Log:
> >   Click-ify various listnames to point to
> >   http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/.  While I'm here, remove the
> >   digest email lists since that's an account preference under Mailman.  The
> >   freebsd-install list doesn't exist any more (now is -config), and very
> >   hastily thump out documentation on how to subscribe/unsubscribe to/from
> >   various mailing lists (though this should be much more obvious and easier
> >   for users since every email has a URL to click on at the bottom of each
> >   message).

Thanks for doing this.

> The doc@ team may want to revisit how lists are advertised.  I think
> it'd be prudent to create another set of entities that are parallel to
> the a.[listname] entities that are defined as a set of ulinks to the
> mailman interface:
> 
> <!ENTITY a.announce.name "<ulink url='http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce'>freebsd-announce</ulink>">;
> 
> If I don't hear any objections, I'll add these entities to
> doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/share/sgml/mailing-lsits.ent.  Having frequently
> used/referenced lists and URLs scattered about strikes me as a
> maintenance headache waiting to happen.

I say go for it.

Ceri
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