| Fri 97-10-17 Nancy McGough <nm(_at_)NoAdsPlease(_dot_)ii(_dot_)com>
junk.daemon
|
| On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, era eriksson wrote:
| > I don't think that's a problem. The problem is getting someone to
| > write it, and someone to publish it.
|
| My latest thought about me writing a procmail book is that
| if I do it, I'm going to self publish it. Since it's a book
| that net-knowledgeable people will buy, it makes sense to
| just market it on my web pages and make it available through
| all the online bookstores, e.g., Amazon.com. If regular
| bookstores want to carry it, great.
|
| I'm open to people contributing chapters and making it a
| collaborative effort. I'm still not 100% sure that I want
| to do it though. What are other people's thoughts. Is
| anyone else writing, or thinking about writing, a procmail
| book?
What comes to collaborative effort, I'm sure you will get all people's
help from this procmail list. Era has cached lot's of links to his
procmail page and there are also other people's pages that contain
lots of information about procmail and receipe writing.
When I have finished correcting my pm-tips.txt (now ~200K) according
to Era's comments, I will move on and gather the rest of the good
tips from the your 1995, then year 1996 and finally 1997 from this
discussion list's archive. Feel free to use the text file any way
you like, when you (possibly) start writing the book. The old
(uncorrected) page can be found from
ftp://cs.uta.fi/pub/ssjaaa --> pm-tips.txt and .html
My personal opinion is that, because I have several books from O'Reilly,
I wouldn't hesitate a bit of buying one from them. The O'Reily has become
a belowed publisher among net people and as someone said before
on this list: you would get 10X bigger market instantly if it were
O'Reilly published book.
jari