[rescue] I'm a published author 8-)

[Chris Byrne]

Honestly, I think this is a great idea. A lot of us here have writing or
editing experience, and several of us have special areas of expertise.
Dave C, Myself, Al Potter, and a few others for example are security
folks. Editing them say one chapter at a time per person wouldn't be too
bad, and we could publish the whole thing to Gutenberg.

Anybody else think this is a good idea?

Chris Byrne

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak
Sent: 31 August 2001 17:24
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] I'm a published author 8-)


> > Seriously, we ought to give some thought to this, collectively.
> > You have a great idea there.....
>=20
> I actually got offered money once for someone to re-use information
off
> SunHELP and the mailing lists, and I told them "uh, its not really
mine
> to sell - its common knowledge and collective intelligence.. and the
posts
> belong to their authors..."

Well, I was thinking of sort of a collective net rescue book, and it
could be something simple like a TeX or troffable tarball that anyone
could use, but where the magickal mystical rescue information could
be gathered up into one collective body.  On-line lists and html stuff
is fine, but sometimes hard to get to, where a solid paper copy in ones
paws, whilst attempting rescue operations, might be better.  Totally
free and open, no sales or moniebadness allowed.  The whole thing is
for the good of the collective body.  Everyone contributes info and
lore to the knowledge body, and maybe several of the folks edit the
stuff collectively into a working reference.  One thought might be
to do it up like manpages, ah, er rescuepages.  It could be onlline,
on-local, or printed out.  It would be a lot of work, and we are all
lazy and overworked, but, I really do sense something like that would
be worthwhile.  We have a good thing going here, Scotty, so don't beam
me up yet.  How to roll it up into a package that is most usable and
versatile for all the rescuers, is the question.

Bob

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