network-manager 0.7 page

[Joel Goguen]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 12:01 +0100, Dougie Richardson wrote:
> You misunderstand, I'm saying he doesn't have to complete information he is unfamiliar with, not that he shouldn't have done it.
My sincere apologies.  I completely misunderstood you and I'm sorry.  

> 
> I'm not sure why offering guidance to a new contributer is being so aggressively critiqued but rest assured I will not take the time to again. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Goguen <jgoguen at jgoguen.ca>
> Sent: 23 October 2008 11:02
> To: Dougie Richardson <ddrichardson at btinternet.com>; ubuntu-doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: RE: network-manager 0.7 page
> 
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 07:44 +0100, Dougie Richardson wrote:
> > Thanks, in the context of the original poster I still think its confusing two seperate ideas, as you say you use it for wireless.
> > 
> > The point is, if he isn't familiar with it he needn't write about it.
> 802.1X is also used on wired networks.  It just happens to be the case
> that my workplace only uses it for wireless right now, but I don't
> imagine it'll be much longer before it's also implemented for the wired
> network.  I don't believe the OP was confusing topics.  Not well
> informed, sure, but I think the OP did a pretty good job considering the
> lack of knowledge.  It's not perfect, but I would expect things to be
> missing from anyone who wasn't quite familiar with all 5 types of
> connections handled by NetworkManager as well as the relevant 802
> standards.  I have a few things I would change, but they're mostly
> fairly minor things that the average user would probably never notice.
> Once I get a chance to go through the page properl
> 
> 
> [The entire original message is not included]
-- 
Joel Goguen
Bug-free code is a myth.
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