Re: PPPuzzles
If anyone who is actually involved in writing documentation ........ PLEASE
take this stuff
on board because if even one elementary (to an expert) item is overlooked it
causes
untold frustration to the less experienced !!!!!!!!!
> If anything, I am swamped with manuals. Sometimes they help,
>sometimes they don't, but much of the time the writers of all these docs,
>HOWTOs, guides, and READMEs are so steeped in the subject that they
>overlook the elementary statements that beginners like me need. The exim
>specs doc, for instance, tells me that exim is best suited for computers
>that are "permanently connected" to the internet. Only after reading
>your message was I certain that this basically means "always online." I
>don't intend to be connected continuously; my ISP provides SMTP for my
>outgoing mail and POP3 for incoming (also NNTP for news)-- so maybe, as
>Jason suggested, for my pedestrian purposes something like Netscape would
>be better than exim, the complete guide for which is HUMUNGOUS.
>
> I have only limited free time to school myself in Linux, so for now
>I'm hoping to get internet operational (on a spare computer) in the
>simplest way possible, then explore the full use of Debian as time
>allows.
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