[3657] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Doc out of date
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Mar 17 18:08:04 2002
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:07:53 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
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Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU> wrote on Sun, 17 Mar 2002
at 17:23:30 -0500 in <200203172223.RAA03898@bearing-an-hourglass.mit.edu>:
> I don't like your patch. It implies that users must perform this step
> manually, and I think it has a good chance of confusing users,
*shrug* Anything to draw people who care out of the woodwork, I guess.
> especially if they happen to leave their machine up overnight before
> gettign to this step. Here is my counter-proposal, barring
> objectiosn, I hope toinstall it tomorrow.
It seems to me that all of section 4 is questionable. The rationale
in the last paragraph for registering no longer applies.
Also, I think it's silly to quote all the lines from hesinfo.
Just list the first line followed by \ldots?
--jhawk
