Re: [exim] Improving Exim Documentation: A Simple Suggestion

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Author: Peter Bowyer
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] Improving Exim Documentation: A Simple Suggestion
2009/11/8 Frank Heydlauf <fh-exim2003@???>:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 04:08:20PM +0000, Peter Bowyer wrote:
>> >
>> > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.20/doc/html/spec_39.html
>>
>> Which is a 9-year old document, describing a pre-historic version of Exim.
>>
>> The only time there have been breaking changes in the config file was
>> the move from 3.x to 4.x, which is well documented in a file whose
>> name I've forgotten, but it's included in the 4.x distribution. The
>> number of people this is still relevant for must be vanishingly small,
>> and certainly not worth a re-vamp of the current documentation.
>
> Please respect the problems of exim-newbies in finding an appropriate
> documentation. With little experience that could be a serious problem.


Indeed, I've raised that issue myself a number of times. I don't
believe newbies are helped, though, by making it easier to use
9-year-old documentation. Right problem, wrong solution.

> Using a standard google/whatever query you'll get lots of links to
> mailing lists and mirrors of mailing lists and only with luck you'll
> get a hit for the current documentation.


Yep. We need to do some SEO.

Peter


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