Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:23:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, plamendp@techno-link.com Subject: Re: iomega-zip: READ http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ48.html Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807211423010.8360-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199807211603.JAA25776@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:33:37 +0300 > >From: Plamen Petkov <plamendp@techno-link.com> > > > 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 "<something>" 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
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