On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:48:12AM +1000, Russell Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Questions I have are - > (1) Do you have a preference as to how peoples' names are mentioned? > At the moment I prefer to put their real first name, and their IRC > nick after it in brackets;
that's okay to me. actually we don't hide our real names, one can look up the authors file and there one will find everyone's real name. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#style the last section paragraph makes sense. but of course i don't want to force anybody. i used to use my nick in commits for a very long time, i still have my nick in my signature. (mainly because i would have the same signature as the FUSE author if i would remove the 'V' :) ) oh but i do use nicks for some of my friends since their last names is not unique and using the full real names is longer than their nicks ;) so probably a matter of taste. > (2) Is anyone actually reading the newsletter? Is there any way of > telling - perhaps stats from the web server? I enjoy publishing it > but I wonder if it's serving the needs/desires of Frugalware's users. > No-one picked up the 'Bugs fixed' bug in the newsletter which leads me > to wonder how many people are actually reading it. Perhaps it needs > more content, as I'm hoping to add gradually in future issues? i don't know exactly know what is the correct search term, but here is a number: $ grep -c 'GET /newsletter' www.frugalware.org-access_log 30768 the log file is not rotated since 28/Jul/2005. one attempt to make the newsletter popular is creating a news entry for each issue. that includes sending a mail to -announce and thus notifying sites like distrowatch (the current issue is linked on their front page) - VMiklos
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