From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 12 01:36:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C3E16A4BF for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 01:36:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amsfep11-int.chello.nl (amsfep11-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E1243FAF for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 01:36:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from sitetronics.com ([213.46.142.207]) by amsfep11-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with ESMTP id <20030912083625.KXCU4496.amsfep11-int.chello.nl@sitetronics.com>; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:36:25 +0200 Message-ID: <3F618551.7020904@sitetronics.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:35:29 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael W. Lucas" References: <20030911235020.GA2098@daemon.li> <20030912000052.GA44177@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20030912000052.GA44177@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-docs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: author's email adress X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:36:28 -0000 Well, nobody says it has to be the original author -- in fact, my interpretation was that multiple people contributing to one document would all be listed. But giving credits for contributing authors in relevant places doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing credit where it's due... and personally, the only reason I would email the author would be to congratulate him/her for the documentation ;). Authors who don't want (their email address?) to be listed could state that when writing the documentation. Anyway it'd be nice to see if for nothing more than purpose of credit. That's my $0.02 Devon Michael W. Lucas wrote: >Hi, > >Frequently, the "original author" would not recognize the document as >it exists in the doc repository. Many documents have been rewritten >over the years. > >Also, just because someone wrote a document doesn't mean that they >want to answer questions about it. That's what mailing lists are for. >:-) > >==ml > >On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:50:20AM +0200, Josef El-Rayes wrote: > > >>hi! >> >>i was wondering why there is no email adress of the author of articles >>available. i think adding something like: >> >> >> Joe >> Randmon >> jr@freebsd.org >> >> >>would be quite useful for people that have questions after reading the >>article as specific questions might be best answered by the author >>himself. status-quo makes it very hard to find out how to contact the >>author directly. >> >>tell me what you think of it. >> >>-josef >>-- >>www: http://www.daemon.li >>nic-hdl: JER1080312-NICAT >>BSD in AT: www.bsdcode.at >>"Make World - Not War!" >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > > >