Re: lynx-dev Lynx book

[Frank Willison]

Dear Fang Lin et al.:

Thanks for expressing your interest in a Lynx book. While we greatly admire
Lynx, we are unlikely to devote an entire book to it. We'll keep it in mind
for inclusion in other books.

I was a little worried by the suggestion that folks send their endorsement
of this book proposal to address@hidden That alias is for actual
proposals, not votes in favor of a proposal. That mail comes directly to me
and to an editorial assistant. We'd be swamped if everyone used it to show
support for a particular book idea.

Thanks for your interest,

Frank Willison




At 12:25 PM 6/25/98 -0700, Fang Lin wrote:
>Yes, I believe it would be very useful to 
>get a LYNX book launched!
>
>Fang Lin
>Information Systems, C&C, UW
>Email: address@hidden
>phone: 206 221 4514
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Thu, 25 Jun 98 15:13:28 +0000
>From: John Poltorak <address@hidden>
>Reply-To: address@hidden
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: lynx-dev Lynx book
>
>> 
>> > > From address@hidden Wed Jun 24 06:54:42 1998 
>> > > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 98 14:23:47 +0000 
>> > > From: John Poltorak <address@hidden> 
>> > >  
>> > > Has anyone written a book on Lynx? 
>> > >  
>> > > A Nutshell book would be handy... 
>> ...  
>> > Yes, O'Reilly tells me that one is coming out in about 
>> > nine months.  The reason for the long delay is that 
>> > they are having a hard time getting the author, 
>> > Mr. John Plotorak, to start work on it. 
>
>:-)
>
>Unfortunately I have only just got started with a useable version of
>LYNX and I'm sure it will take me the best part of nine months to
>discover all the wonderful features it has. By that time I wouldn't
>need a book.
>
>> I would think that Fote is the best qualified to work on something like
>> that (but would require a good editor to keep the book from growing w/o
>> bounds).
>
>If people are interested in getting a LYNX book launched, an email to 
>
><a href="mailto:address@hidden";> here </a>
>
>wouldn't do any harm.
> 
>> -- 
>> Thomas E. Dickey
>> address@hidden
>> http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
>> 
>
>-- 
>John
>
>

Frank Willison
Editor-in-Chief, Technical Publishing
O'Reilly & Associates  (617)354-5800