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

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Συντάκτης: pete McEvoy
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Προς: Peter Bowyer
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Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] Improving Exim Documentation: A Simple Suggestion
While we're at it, could I suggest doing away with the frame or whatever it
is that means the correct url is never shown in the address bar when
browsing exim.org.

Cheers

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Peter Bowyer <peter@???> wrote:

> 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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