Re: [Exim] What do you want in a book?

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: David Sheryn
CC: Phil Pennock, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] What do you want in a book?
PP> For a start, be prepared to have the full specs in the appendices.
If
PP> nothing else, a few hundred extra pages will make the prospective
PP> publisher's eyes gleam at the thought of the price they can charge.

;^)

D.H.Sheryn@??? said:
> NoNoNo! That's what spec.{txt,ps,etc} is for ! I never feel quite so
> cheated as when I've bought a book, half of which contains the
> reference docs which I could print out anyway (so why buy the book ?
> for the half that _isn't_ the reference docs...)


Why not see if somewhere such as GNU itself, a user group, Cambridge
Uni or the book publisher, is willing to sell nicely printed/bound
copies of the standard exim documentation for a not too exorbitant fee.

    Nigel.
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