On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:44:37PM -0800, Todd Walton wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:40:22 -0800, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So I'm going to put out a challenge, kinda like pledge week on
> > KPBS: I will write a review of an O'Reilly book to match every
> > review another Kplugger writes, up to six (6), for the month of
> > February.
> 
> Does this one count? :
> http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-list/2005-January/075239.html
> 

It counts for your karma, but not for my matching challenge.

> It's only a half-review, actually, and it's for the month of January,
> and I'm not sure who counts as a Kplugger.
> 

Anyone who wants to be is a kplugger (at least, it always used to be
that way -- our relationship w/ SDCS has, I believe, evolved, so that
may only be half true now).

See the O'Reilly web reference for what constitutes a review. One or two
paragraphs will do.

> Regardless, I'll write another.  Also, what kind of book reviews are
> appropriate for putting up on the website?  Surely not just O'Reilly
> books.  Just computer books?  Just non-fiction?  No Windows-specific
> books?  Only books with a dead tree version?
> 

You miss the point. O'Reilly sends us paper books that fuel our raffle
and fill our coffers. If you want to write a review of the latest Elmore
Leonard, have at it, but it has nothing to do with my matching
challenge.

On the other hand, I will not demand that reviewers have won the books
they review at a kplug raffle. But please, don't review anything you
haven't read. And yes, O'Reilly computer books are the only reviews I'll
match. New reviews, written and submitted in February 2005.

We owe O'Reilly big, and we're way behind in living up to our end of the
free book bargain. I'm trying to stimulate some action (in myself as
well as others). For background, I'm a kind of annoying member of this
list, so I figured it would be irrestible for people to have a chance to
load me down with work.

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