ppp and new users (was: Re: Tecnology and marketing)
I wrote:
> In my experience, the number one cause of confused ppp users is the
> PPP-HOWTO.
Terry writes:
> Do you mean the "new" by Robert Hart? Have you made any suggestions to
> Robert? I'm sure he'd be happy for feedback. He is a fairly (very?)
> Pro-RedHat person, but I think he'd accept any Debian specific
> information and add it as a supplement somewhere.
I wrote:
> The problem with the PPP-HOWTO is that it is very thorough. Anyone who
> reads and understands it is ready to go out and set up an isp. A useful
> and necessary document to be sure, but often new users who read it as they
> are enjoined to do come away even more confused.
Igor Grobman writes:
> Did anyone take a look at the instructions I put up in faqomatic's ppp
> section? What I did is I wrote down all the usual advice I give while
> helping people with ppp on irc. Do you think these instructions are
> worth including elsewhere (some debian package ?)
> The URL is http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=20
I just tried and got *extremely* slow response. I'll try again tomorrow
morning.
> P.S. Why is this still on -private?
I've moved it to -devel.
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John Hasler
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Elmwood, WI
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