"John R. Levine" wrote:
>
> >This editor would preferably _NOT_ be someone who "knows a lot about qmail"
> >they would be a quality technical writer with perhaps gardening background.
>
> Having written quite a lot of technical books, I can say that's not
> likely to work, especially with an editor who doesn't know the
> material. The qmail list is a swell way to get specific questions
> answered, but it's a lousy way to get introduced to qmail, and also
> not a very good way to get answers to questions that aren't phrased
> concretely.
I left out that the "book" would have to go through a beta period
of sorts, with public comment, and a "find the bugs" program with
money for the first to discover an inaccuracy or make an incremental
improvement. It could be The First Bazaar-Style Technical Manual.
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David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JAPH
