SuSE mailing list m17n and hidden information
This post is mainly about SuSE having some great information but not making it easily accessible. I have had a pet project to get chinese input running on SuSE for sometime. I have been searching the SuSE site on and off for over a year and have never found any useful information. Yesterday I found a link in google which lead me to: http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/ Which is a brilliant document on getting asian character input to work in SuSE by Mike Fabian. This answered all my questions. The next link in my google search lead me to another SuSE link: http://lists.suse.com/archive/m17n/2001-Nov/ This is a link to a SuSE mailing list called m17n which I had never heard of before nor seen on the website. Now this mailing list is only 3 months old but there is no mention of it on either suse.com or suse.de. The archived posts that I read were very helpful. Here is a mailing list that will help me. I find it strange that SuSE is producing such good documentation but not making it available. Does anyone remember that Lenz wrote a document on how to make your own rpms? How easy do you think that will be to find if a) you don't know that it was Lenz that wrote the document or b) you don't know the document exists but are looking for help. I spent 10 minutes on www.suse.de/en looking and I couldn't find it. This makes me wonder: what other great documentation have SuSE's people created that we can't access unless we know about it first? (or are lucky with google?). Just some thoughts, Jethro Cramp
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 10:05, Jethro Cramp wrote:
I find it strange that SuSE is producing such good documentation but not making it available.
I don't. As a former librarian, I know how difficult it is to make information accessible. Organization and indexing of information is incredibly difficult, requires a lot of experience and a lot of judgement calls. The web just makes this worse. I dismissed the web, when it was getting started, as useless because I didn't see how information could be found on it. Gopher was a lot better for actually finding things. The web badly needs a bunch of librarians to take it in hand, and organize it. Ain't gonna happen, though. And even though librarians get paid peanuts, I doubt SuSE can afford to hire a few to organize their website. Be well, Lissa -- INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for their actions. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
* Jethro Cramp (jsc@rock-tnsc.com) [020202 07:06]:
This is a link to a SuSE mailing list called m17n which I had never heard of before nor seen on the website. Now this mailing list is only 3 months old but there is no mention of it on either suse.com or suse.de. The archived posts that I read were very helpful. Here is a mailing list that will help me.
I've contacted the webmaster about it not being listed on http://www.suse.com/us/support/mailinglists/index.html with the other lists. Very sorry about that. -- -ckm
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