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Re: [comp.os.linux.advocacy] FAQ and Primer for COLA, Edition III

  • Subject: Re: [comp.os.linux.advocacy] FAQ and Primer for COLA, Edition III
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:53:11 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / ISBE, Manchester University / ITS / Netscape / MCC
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__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 11 September 2006 17:22 \__

> begin  oe_protect.scr
> High Plains Thumper <hpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> High Plains Thumper on Saturday
>>> 
>>>> Following is excerpted from:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/linux/advocacy/faq-and-primer/
>>>> 
>>>> <snip />
>>>>
>>>> 1.4 The Charter of comp.os.linux.advocacy
>>>> 
>>>>    The charter of comp.os.linux.advocacy is:
>>>> 
>>>>      For discussion of the benefits of Linux compared to
>>>>      other operating systems.
>>>> 
>>>>    That single sentence is the one and only charter of the
>>>>    newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy. The newsgroup's
>>>>    charter is for the newsgroup as a place for supporters
>>>>    of Linux to gather to discuss Linux, for the betterment
>>>>    of the Linux community and the promotion and
>>>>    development of Linux. It supports this as a place for
>>>>    those who would like to learn more about Linux to come
>>>>    to learn from those who know Linux. It does not call
>>>>    for it to be a place where the anti-Linux propagandists
>>>>    to gather in order to discredit Linux.
>>> 
>>> I hope you set this post to a weekly recurrence. It's more
>>> valuable than it may seem on the surface.
>> 
>> True.  Minimum posting should be at least monthly, I'll give it
>> a shot.  Also, we know that this so called second charter that
>> some have brought up in the past, in truth does not exist.
> 
> It would be useful to have it come up.  I'd also quite like to see the
> FAQ rejuvenated, as we still have a few questions coming up here on a
> regular basis which could be handled in that way.
> 
> The present discussion about the CLI was well handled in the first FAQ
> issue, I thought (but then I did write that bit :-).


If suitable, the FAQ can be modified in a Wiki. *smile*


>> Reference:
>> 
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_frm
>> /thread/3a36eaf74cc73f/dc0c7bfeb17f459f?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1
>> &hl=en#dc0c7bfeb17f459f
>> 
>> or http://tinyurl.com/g4f4k
> 
> <snip>

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