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Re: Feedback

On Nov 22,  9:06am, David Merrill wrote:
> Subject: Re: Feedback
> From: "David Lawyer" <dave@lafn.org>
> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:30:16AM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> > > From: "Greg Ferguson" <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
> > > > A good project, if someone wishes to take this on, would be to
> create
> > > > and maintain an up-to-date "contact" list for documentation.
> > > >
> > > > This would include:
> > > >
> > > > - Finding updated email addresses for all HOWTO authors. As
> > > >   we have seen, inquiries have come in as to how to contact
> > > >   HOWTO authors; as (some of) the published email addresses
> > > >   are no longer valid.
> >
> > Someone should contact our former HOWTO coordinator Tim Bynum.  He
> > kept a list of the mail addresses and perhaps telephone numbers of the
> > HOWTO authors.  But I never was contacted in that way so this info
> > wasn't used much.  It might be a good way to track down authors that
> > are no longer at their old email address (They might even have no
> > email address at all).
>
> IMHO the long term solution here is the ability to extract them directly
> from the HOWTOs' SGML source. I'm trying to learn perl to do this stuff
> right now, but am struggling. I'll get there, but I hope you don't all
> lose patience with me. :)
>
> I'd be happy to see a real perl programmer do some of this to get it
done
> more quickly, but I also need to learn it sometime anyway.

I already have that. It's all in the HOWTO data file, if you
want it. It's not just getting the addresses, it's making sure they
are *accurate*.



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