Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:49:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Southwell <vizion@ptialaska.net> Cc: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailing list charter violation [Re: make world failed] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004042325120.42136-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <016d01bf9eb4$d5ec5380$09e346c6@demon.co.uk>
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I suppose we can do more simply provide links to these sites. Most of the time I will treat all of these sites as a large pool of resources, adding nothing to the existing boundaries between these sites. But I could provide a way to allow people to vote on the quality of these sites. When a site gets low rankings the greasy daemon site can be used to encourage contributions to that site. And when a site gets very high ratings, more links can be placed on the site. That way people will be able to find the best content available. I also believe that drawing resources from a few sites is more useful than just relying on one site. Although the freebsd.org site is the main site, it is much easier to contribute content to other sites. It is also ideal to have detailed documentation on the freebsd.org website. If you are interested in acting as "the glue" to link all of these sites closer together with a useful search engine and other portal features I will need some help. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Southwell wrote: > Congrats - > It looks very promising.. no doubt you will be adding links to each of the > sites - could you add user comments about each site as well? > If you get the time and you feel it is a good idea - just my two pennorth > anyway > > David S. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brennan W Stehling" <brennan@offwhite.net> > To: "Brad Knowles" <blk@skynet.be> > Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>; <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 7:57 PM > Subject: Re: Mailing list charter violation [Re: make world failed] > > > > There is not much to see on www.greasydaemon.com yet. It is simply going > > to point to BSD sites... to assist in finding documentation. If you have > > your own bsd site and offer some documentation on some topic, let me know. > > I will be creating categories for information, like networking, security, > > and other useful topics. Sites like freebsd.org offer lots of great info > > on networking and many other topics but I hope to provide links to other > > sites that augment that information. > > > > I also hope to encourage people to contribute documentation to freebsd.org > > and articles to sites like freebsdzine.org, freebsdrocks.org and > > daemonnews.org. I do not intend to spider more than 10 major sites to > > encourage people to pool information on a limited number of sites. > > > > Recently I needed to get natd running for my home network but could not > > find much help on the freebsd.org site, but several days later I found it > > on another site. But now in a few seconds I can 18 matches on useful > > information with the following search string. > > > > natd ip filtering > > > > Part of the documentation problem is not that it does not exist, just that > > it is hard to find. I hope to see that problem go away. > > > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > > projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > > > > fortune: > > The rhino is a homely beast, > > For human eyes he's not a feast. > > Farewell, farewell, you old rhinoceros, > > I'll stare at something less prepoceros. > > -- Ogden Nash > > > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > > > > > At 5:34 PM -0500 2000/4/4, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > > > > > > Also check out this site... > > > > > > > > http://www.greasydaemon.com/ > > > > > > I haven't looked at it extensively yet, but what I have looked at > > > so far is really cool. Thanks again! > > > > > > -- > > > These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy > > > ====================================================================== > > > Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV > > > Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 > > > Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels > > > http://www.skynet.be || Belgium > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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