From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 21 14:24:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16837 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16729 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA28496; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:23:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:23:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: David Wolfskill cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, plamendp@techno-link.com Subject: Re: iomega-zip: READ http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ48.html In-Reply-To: <199807211603.JAA25776@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:33:37 +0300 > >From: Plamen Petkov > > > Hmm, what about some hard coded numbering scheme... say 001..099: > >Installing... 100..199:Admin... 200..299:Commincations ...etc...numbers > >reserved for future FAQ's.. > > >This way you could insert every new FAQ into his subject group w/o rearanging > >the numbers... > > >Now the FAQ48 will be "" forever.. :-) > > Well, *IF* (please note the "big if"!) it is deemed sufficiently useful > to maintain label consistency, I submit that rather than using numeric > ranges for specific topics, it would probably be a little easier to use > alphabetic (mnemonic) prefixes -- "Install-xxx"; "Admin-xxx"; "Comm-xxx" > -- or maybe just single letters, though that gets a little cryptic. > > However, I really don't think the effort necessary to keep the pointers > constant is worth it. The FAQ is small enough that a pointer to the top level page and the question number is enough. The numbers themselves don't change (as long as I don't do anything dopey). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message