On 2009-11-10 at 15:13 -0000, Simon Beale wrote:
> >> Using a standard google/whatever query you'll get lots of links to
> >> mailing lists and mirrors of mailing lists and only with luck you'll
> >> get a hit for the current documentation.
> 
> Indeed, just had a colleague ask for help with some rewriting changes he
> was making to our exim, where he'd followed the documentation and it
> wasn't working...
> 
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-2.00/doc/html/spec_toc.html#TOC667
> 
> ...which he'd found from googling.
> 
> He at least had got the correct site, if not anything written this century.

Perhaps it's worth post-editing the old documentation to insert a sticky
panel at the top of the viewport which warns, in big letters, "this is
OLD documentation, for release N.NN from YYYY; please go to /FOO for
current documentation" ?

Regards,
-Phil

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