Framebuffer-HOWTO appears to be unmaintained

["David Merrill" <dcmerrill@mindspring.com>]

No luck getting a contact for the Framebuffer-HOWTO, as the bounced mail
below shows. I tried the author and the "feedback" contact, which were
different guys, but both addresses are dead.

Do we have an agreed upon policy or procedure for dealing with these
situations? At what point do we decide the document is unmaintained? How
do we determine a new maintainer, or is it just the first person who
volunteers?

There are several "contributors" listed, so we could probably try them,
and see if any of them wish to take over maintainership.


--
David C. Merrill, Ph.D.
Linux Documentation Project
Collection Editor & Coordinator
www.LinuxDoc.org


----- Original Message -----
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To: <dcmerrill@mindspring.com>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:44 PM
Subject: undeliverable mail


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> Message-ID: <00ec01c050c6$51e93ac0$6401a8c0@nc.ehomecare.com>
> From: "David Merrill" <dcmerrill@mindspring.com>
> To: <Frederick.A.Niles@gsfc.nasa.gov>
> Subject: Fw: Nondeliverable mail
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:43:46 -0500
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> The LDP is attempting to make contact with Alex Buel, who we have listed
> at alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk, but we have been unable to reach
him.
> In fact, the domain does not appear to be in the whois database.
>
> You are listed as the "Feedback" contact, so I'm trying you. ;)
>
> Is Alex still the maintainer of this document, and if so, do you have an
> updated email address for him?
>
> TIA,
>
> --
> David C. Merrill, Ph.D.
> Linux Documentation Project
> Collection Editor & Coordinator
> www.LinuxDoc.org
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Postmaster@nc.rr.com>
> To: <dcmerrill@mindspring.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:35 PM
> Subject: Nondeliverable mail
>
>
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> > alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk
> > 550 (BHST) Unknown host/domain name in
"alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk"
> >
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> Received: from wsdmerrill ([216.4.7.226]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com  with
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> Message-ID: <00cd01c050c3$6850e270$6401a8c0@nc.ehomecare.com>
> From: "David Merrill" <dcmerrill@mindspring.com>
> To: <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>
> Subject: Are you still there?
> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:22:55 -0500
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
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> Return-Path: dcmerrill@mindspring.com
>
> The LDP just got a report that a reader of your HOWTO was unable to
> contact you. Please let us know if you're there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> David C. Merrill, Ph.D.
> Linux Documentation Project
> Collection Editor & Coordinator
> www.LinuxDoc.org
>
>
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