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[Tom Rhodes]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:15:38 +0100
"Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2003.12.30 11:57:25 -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:40:13 -0800 (PST)
> > Mobasher Sobhan <moba2k at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > The port specified does not exist, or has an invalid
> > > name: 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ports/apache13-fp/pkg-descr
> > > You are coming from 
> > > 
> > > http://www%2efreebsd%2eorg/doc/en%5fUS%2eISO8859%2d1/books/faq/applications%2ehtml.
> > 
> > Perhaps in these cases we should have people email the
> > Maintainer or have the email go to ports@?
> 
> Well, in this case the problem was that the port category was missing in
> the FAQ, so www-(/doc-) was the correct responsible...
> 
> I'm not really sure in which situations ports@ might be more appropriate
> to send mail to (but there probably are some).

True in this case, but at times (for instance when a port cannot
be located anymore in the search) it may be easier to let people
know that either an update has not been done on the site or
to email ports.  Perhaps I'm just thinking too much, not sure.

-- 
Tom Rhodes