Re: Newsletter location

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:32:36AM -0800, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> 
> Mohammed, its of course completely upto you, but a good place for it would
> be under Resources (a new section akin to HOWTO, PAPERS, and now maybe
> NewsLetter (with side-by-side setting).  It would be cool to have pdf files
> as well (just in case).
> 
> November 2001 (english)         (Arabic - windows CP-1256 encoding)

Umm... UTF-8 ;) I *know* that most people have cp-1256 enabled by default, etc
tc. But there are two principles here: 
  a) CP-1256 is for Windows, and we are geared toward Linux/Unix
  b) UTF-8 is *the* standard

> 
> In terms of header/footer/right/etc -- it would be nice to have 'em, but
> totally upto Mohammed how he'd like to handle this.

Yes. When we were discussing this earlier, I was thinking in terms of storage,
and not display. It definitely fits under Resources. 

> Isam - I would suggest posting to general and to doc (two separate emails)
> in which the following is said (or something similar - both to announce the
> newletter and the URL for it and to ask for help).

I recommend 'announcements' list for this type of thing. I am really not
advocating a mushroom effect with the lists, but we will have several
announcements to make, and I have no intentions of cluttering everyone's
mailbox because they are subscribed to 2-3 of our lists already. It's bad
ethics ;)


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