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new mailing list for FDSCo
by Karsten Wade 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

To help keep traffic on this list focused on actual documentation work, we have formed a separate list for the Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (FDSCo) to have discussions. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-dsco-list This list is open, publicly archived, and has no restrictions on membership or who can post. You are heartily encouraged to join, lurk, and keep us on our toes. On topic for the list is FDSCo business. Generally this means FDSCo members are doing the discussing, but you may join the discussion if your comments are on topic _and_ relevant. All other topics should be discussed on fedora-docs-list. Minutes from our weekly IRC meetings on #fedora-docs will be mailed to this new list for archiving. In this way we can practice open, transparent leadership without burdening the general docs discussion with administrivia. cheers - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Red Hat SELinux Guide http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/

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Self Introduction : William Hoffmann
by William HOFFMANN 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

Hello everyboy So here's my self introduction: 1/ My name is William HOFFMANN 2/ I'm living in Pantin (near Paris) in France. And I'm working in Nanterre on the other side of Paris... 3/ I'm a training instructor, I'm teaching in the linux area. 4/ My compagny is Red Hat Inc, 5/ My goals in the fedora project : My first goal is to share my knowledge I'd like to write about network or mail systems ( Postfix ) and I'm currently working on a doc about securisation of mail system ( postfix/ssl/tls/clamav/spamassin) My native language is french ... and I hope my english is good enough to be well understood. 6/ Historical qualifications : To learn docbook I've wrote some "memo" in french see => http://people.redhat.com/~hoffmann/ I've some skills in Linux / networking / system administration 7/ GPG KEYID and fingerprint : pub 1024D/A2C85378 2004-09-30 William HOFFMANN (William) <hoffmann(a)redhat.com> Empreinte de la clé = F5EC D418 5989 3D9A C7B8 565D 95EA 1BD9 A2C8 5378 sub 2048g/484A92F6 2004-09-30 http://people.redhat.com/~hoffmann/william_hoffmann.asc Anything else ? -- -------------------------------------------------------------- - William HOFFMANN +33 (0)1 41 91 23 21 - - - GLS Instructor RHCE RHCX - - - - http://people.redhat.com/~hoffmann - - - Red Hat France GnuPG ID : A2C85378 - --------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: Docbook wiki]
by David Malcolm 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Has anyone tried this? Looks like a bridge between DocBook and a wiki-style of editing, as discussed on recent threads. I haven't yet tried actual editing with the software.

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Re: Preventing spammers from infiltrating the Red Hat mailing lists
by William M. Quarles 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

David Cary Hart wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 12:36 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote: > > >>If you would like to see the Red Hat newsgroup mirrors have encrypted >>e-mail addresses, please reply to this topic and discuss. If you are >>even more brave (important since some of these lists are high-volume and >>not everything gets read), please contact your list administrator >>directly at <listname-admin(a)redhat.com>. If someone knows how to get >>the word out on the international lists or to their administrators >>(since I don't speak multiple tongues), please do so. If someone knows >>who to contact who can make all of the newsgroups have encrypted e-mail >>addresses going above all of the list administrators (maybe the person >>who decided to obfuscate them all on the web archive?) please contact >>him or her and let us know how to contact that person. >> > > The problem is spam not the lists nor list management. True but the list management could take on small step to protect all of us, so I don't see why they shouldn't do it, particularly when they have already taken a similar step on Red Hat website.

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DocBook Wiki Setup Help
by Tommy Reynolds 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

I'm trying to get this Docbook Wiki tool setup locally. I've installed the swish-e prerequisite and then downloaded and built the "book" tool from the website. How do I connect the PHP stuff from the Docbook Wiki to my local http server? No, I'm not much of a web guy. Thanks!

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Preventing spammers from infiltrating the Red Hat mailing lists
by William M. Quarles 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

Hi all, I sent what I thought was a very important request to one of the Fedora lists which was quickly beaten down, and I did not receive anything back on subsequent replies. I would appreciate your help in making sure that the lists are safe for all of us. I'm actually going to the trouble of subscribing to nearly all of the Red Hat mailing lists just to get the word out. One thing that I have done recently was to search for my e-mail addresses on the Internet web pages to find all of the places that list them. Why bother doing this? Just like how Google has spiders that crawl the Internet to gather general information, spammers have spiders that crawl the Internet to gather e-mail addresses to spam people. I have contacted all of the websites who did not modify my e-mail addresses (mostly on mailing lists) in such that they cannot be collected. Red Hat has done at least one thing right in that they have modified everyone's e-mail address in their web archive, such that it reads something like <walrus bellsouth.net> for mine. However Red Hat has left one big gaping whole that the spam spiders can still crawl into. There is a complete active mirror of these lists as postable newsgroups kept on a service called Gmane <http://gmane.org>. I'm using Gmane to write this message to you now. It's a pretty sophisticated setup, has safeguards to prevent spam getting posted, and they use Spam Assassin to clean up stuff that still ends up on the list (except you have to filter it yourself on the newsgroup interface). The only problem is that spam spiders crawl the newsgroups to collect e-mail addresses. Gmane has a safeguard to prevent this, but it has to be turned on by the list administrator. Gmane can encrypt the e-mail addresses on the list such that any mail sent to them is routed through Gmane first, and then the sender must under go a challenge-response before the message gets routed to the actual recipient. Of all of the Red Hat lists I've only found two newsgroup mirrors that use address encryption: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.java <fedora-java-list>, and gmane.redhat.taroon <taroon-beta-list>. If you would like to see the Red Hat newsgroup mirrors have encrypted e-mail addresses, please reply to this topic and discuss. If you are even more brave (important since some of these lists are high-volume and not everything gets read), please contact your list administrator directly at <listname-admin(a)redhat.com>. If someone knows how to get the word out on the international lists or to their administrators (since I don't speak multiple tongues), please do so. If someone knows who to contact who can make all of the newsgroups have encrypted e-mail addresses going above all of the list administrators (maybe the person who decided to obfuscate them all on the web archive?) please contact him or her and let us know how to contact that person. Thanks so much, William

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Preventing spammers from infiltrating the Red Hat mailing lists
by William M. Quarles 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

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ignore, test of mailman celerity
by Karsten Wade 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

ignore, thx -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Red Hat SELinux Guide http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/

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Streamlined Install Guide
by Stuart Ellis 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

This is a first pass at restructuring the Install Guide. HTML: http://mythic-beasts.com/~hobb/fedora/fedora-install-guide-en/index.html DocBook: http://mythic-beasts.com/~hobb/fedora/fedora-install-guide-0.6.0.tar.gz I've put in a chapter for post-installation, with some rough text that I wrote a while ago, basically so that we can direct the user's attention to Websites, particular tutorials or other bits of help and advice once they have completed the installation.

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OT: Free / Open Source Software Survey
by Florian Reiss 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Dear fedora-docs-list subscribers, I am sorry for interrupting your discussion but maybe you are interested in participating in a scientific survey... I am currently writing my masters thesis in Psychology at the University of Cologne, Germany. I am writing my thesis about the open source community i.e. experiences of developers and users with the open source community. By filling out a questionnaire I designed you would help me to find out about personal motivations for knowledge sharing and cooperation in software projects and software communities. I would be very grateful if you could take 5-10 minutes of your time to help me and would appreciate your experts opinion on the matter. If you are interested in taking part in this survey please use the link below to get to the questionnaire. In case you are not interested or too busy you may simply erase this email. Thank you in advance for your help! Link to the questionnaire: http://www.unipark.de/uc/survey/index.php3?a=fdoc Details about the survey: * The questionnaire is in English and in German. * At the end of the online questionnaire you can take part in a raffle initiated by me. * The investigation is done anonymously which means that no personalised links (invitation to the survey with an individual parameter) are used. * The parameter "fdoc" is just used for methodical reasons in order to know how you have been invited to the questionnaire. * The investigation is done by a partially standardised questionnaire (open and closed questions). * No cookies are set. * All participants will have access to the quantitative statistics on my website. * When the survey period has finished the completely anonymous data set will be offered for download. Best regards, Florian Reiss --- Florian Reiss freiss(a)gmx.de 59BE B457 80F3 EB5C C7B6 88F8 B373 FA57 1C53 407B

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