Re: Cyrillic-HOWTO should be moved to unmaintained (fwd)

[Alex Kanavin <ak@cave.hop.stu.neva.ru>]

Дорога расчищена :-)

-- 
Alexander

Homepage: http://www.sensi.org/~ak/
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:42:17 -0400
From: Greg Ferguson <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
To: Alex Kanavin <ak@cave.hop.stu.neva.ru>,
     Guylhem Aznar <guylhem@metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Cyrillic-HOWTO should be moved to unmaintained

This has been done. The Cyrillic-HOWTO is now part of
the unmaintained area.


On Jul 31,  8:21am, Guylhem Aznar wrote:
> Subject: Re: Cyrillic-HOWTO should be moved to unmaintained
> Greg, could you please do it?
>
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:35:59AM +0400, Alex Kanavin wrote:
> > Sir,
> >
> > I'd like to ask you to move Cyrillic-HOWTO into unmaintained category
> > for the following reasons:
> >
> > 1) It was last updated 2.5 years ago in January 1998. Nearly every
section
> > is out-of-date now. Many of its recommendations are plain wrong today.
> > It only confuses newbies instead of helping them.
> >
> > 2) The author, Alexander Belikoff, did not answer to the same request
(to
> > move the HOWTO into unmaintained category). His address still seems to
be
> > valid though. He admitted in a public newsgroup that he doesn't have
the
> > time to support the HOWTO some months ago.
> >
> > 3) For Russian-speaking users there's a vastly better source of
> > information and links regarding cyrillic and localisation issues - the
FAQ
> > collection at my homepage.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > 		Alexander.
> >
> > Homepage: http://www.sensi.org/~ak/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Guylhem P. Aznar                               http://www.linuxdoc.org
> guylhem \@/ metalab.unc.edu                    http://www.iMedecin.com
> "They who can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
> safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."  -----  Benjamin Franklin
>-- End of excerpt from Guylhem Aznar



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