From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17666 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karel Sprenger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: A paper manual Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 15:19:38 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19981009151938.009896b0@ic.uva.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156326 2129 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA28665 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:23:44 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAF11992; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:53:10 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 09 Oct 1998 08:22:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA25522 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 08:21:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from smtp2.xs4all.nl (smtp2.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.52]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA28532 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:21:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from harmony (harmony.xs4all.nl [194.109.13.3]) by smtp2.xs4all.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA26947; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:20:47 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: ks@ic.uva.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen In-Reply-To: Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17666 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17666 Hi, At 12:52 9-10-98 +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: >I'm sitting here flipping through the illustrated Gnus manual, and I >was thinking it might be nice to have it in a, eh, more permanent >format. Like -- bound properly and stuff. > >Now, I'm not saying I'm going to publish a bound version of the >manual, but I wonder whether there's any interest in having something >like that. In one way, it's somewhat impractical -- infomation on >dead, flat trees get outdated after a millisecond, and people can >always print the thing out themselves. And it will probably be heavy >-- the one I have is 1kg. But -- if I were to do something like that, >would any one of you like to buy one if the price was not >unreasonable? > I'd buy one if it were less heavy than the single-sided printed manual :-) It certainly deserves a proper book! Wouldn't O'Reilly be interested? Or is that not a "proper" organization? Cheers, Karel Sprenger | phone: +31-20-525 2302 Informatiseringscentrum | +31-20-525 2741 Universiteit van Amsterdam | fax : +31-20-525 2084 Turfdraagsterpad 9, NL-1012 XT AMSTERDAM | home : +31-20-670 0942 *** PGP Public Key available on servers *** | email: