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Re: FAQ DRAFT v2
On Sat, 18 May 1996, Shay Rojansky wrote:
> I agree about the Latin and otherwise "complex" English words. We
> must remember that this is Israel. Maybe you guys don't feel this,
> but as a SysOp of a BBS trying to push Linux you would not believe
> the amount of alphabetically challenged people who log on. This FAQ
> should be accessible to *EVERYONE*, and thus I urge Marc to remove
> any words over 3 letters in length that are not "food". OK, maybe
> I overdid it, but you get the point.
I refuse to write a sex guide. The very fact that "internationalization"
can appear in a Linux FAQ makes it impossible for me to write a FAQ for
the linguisticly challenged.
> I like the general spirit of v2, but we should not drag the idea of RTFM
> too much.
Yes we should. The raison d'etre of this FAQ is to make people RTFM.
> covered by the appropriate howtos. In this sense I agree with Ilan -
> We should ONLY explain Israeli-specific issues, such as list netiquette,
> FTP sites, web sites, etc.
Agreed.
> Marc: Correct your FAQ concerning running some DOS apps. Linux runs
> Heretic as far as I know (under DosEMU). Just drop a few words there
> and refer people to the DosEMU howto.
Will be done.
---MAV (finger for PGP signature block)
Marc A. Volovic (marc@cs.huji.ac.il)
Linguists do it cunningly
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