Finish up 1.0.8 docs.

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diff --git a/Bundle/README b/Bundle/README
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 This is a Bundle file for Slash, the code that runs Slashdot.  See
-http://slashcode.com/ for more information.
+http://slashcode.com/ or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/
+for more information.
diff --git a/Bundle/Slash.pm b/Bundle/Slash.pm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package Bundle::Slash;
 
-$Bundle::Slash::VERSION = '1.0.7';
+$Bundle::Slash::VERSION = '1.0.8';
 
 1;
 
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ __END__
 
 Bundle::Slash - A bundle to install all modules used for Slash
 
+
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
 C<perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Bundle::Slash"'>

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -2,72 +2,69 @@ NAME
     README - Slashdot Readme
 
 DESCRIPTION
-    This is the README file for Slash, release 1.0.7. Please read
-    all documentation carefully. The various documents explain the
-    database schema, the various fields in the database, and some of
-    the reasoning behind the design of the schema, installation and
-    setup.
-
-    Please see INSTALL for database upgrade instructions. Code
-    upgrading is simple: use the new code in the new distribution,
-    and make sure that you have the new values and configurations in
-    your copies of slashdotrc.pl and httpd.conf. If you neglect to
-    upgrade these last two, your site likely will not work.
-
-    Also, double-check every line of CHANGES to see if anything has
-    changed to affect your site (like a change from Mail::Sender to
-    Mail::Sendmail, for example).
-
-    Note: This page looks best in a browser (the HTML version of it
-    is in the docs/ directory). You can print it out, but some of
-    the ASCII illustrations may get munged in printing, but the
-    directions will certainly appear good enough to read.
+    This is the README file for Slash, release 1.0.8. Please read all
+    documentation carefully. The various documents explain the database
+    schema, the various fields in the database, and some of the reasoning
+    behind the design of the schema, installation and setup.
+
+    Please see INSTALL for database upgrade instructions. Code upgrading is
+    simple: use the new code in the new distribution, and make sure that you
+    have the new values and configurations in your copies of slashdotrc.pl
+    and httpd.conf. If you neglect to upgrade these last two, your site
+    likely will not work.
+
+    Also, double-check every line of CHANGES to see if anything has changed
+    to affect your site (like a change from Mail::Sender to Mail::Sendmail,
+    for example).
+
+    Note: This page looks best in a browser (the HTML version of it is in
+    the docs/ directory). You can print it out, but some of the ASCII
+    illustrations may get munged in printing, but the directions will
+    certainly appear good enough to read.
 
     We have a preliminary Getting Started document at
-    public_html/getting_started.shtml. If this is your first time
-    with Slash, or you have questions or problems getting started,
-    look here first.
+    public_html/getting_started.shtml. If this is your first time with
+    Slash, or you have questions or problems getting started, look here
+    first.
 
-    See the Slash web site, with support, docs, latest downloads,
-    FAQs, and more, at <URL:http://slashcode.com/>.
+    See the Slash web site, with support, docs, latest downloads, FAQs, and
+    more, at <URL:http://slashcode.com/>.
 
-    This release is tagged in CVS as v1_0_7_0. See the SourceForge
-    site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/ for CVS, bug
-    reporting, patch submissions, and downloads.
+    This release is tagged in CVS as v1_0_8_0. See the SourceForge site at
+    <http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/> for CVS, bug reporting,
+    patch submissions, and downloads.
 
   What is Slash?
 
-    Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not get this answered?
-    Slash is a database-driven news and message board, using
-    mod_perl and MySQL. It has been programmed, more so recently, to
-    use persistance for a good deal of its variables to increase
-    speed and efficiency. Slash has all the features and more that
-    you'd ever want in a bulletin-board/message-board system. You
-    can customize it to anything you want, give it any appearance
-    that you want. This can mostly be done via data. Slash is a
-    database beast in the true sense. The Slash code is distributed
-    under the GNU General Public License (see COPYING).
+    Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not get this answered? Slash is a
+    database-driven news and message board, using mod_perl and MySQL. It has
+    been programmed, more so recently, to use persistance for a good deal of
+    its variables to increase speed and efficiency. Slash has all the
+    features and more that you'd ever want in a bulletin-board/message-board
+    system. You can customize it to anything you want, give it any
+    appearance that you want. This can mostly be done via data. Slash is a
+    database beast in the true sense. The Slash code is distributed under
+    the GNU General Public License (see COPYING).
 
   Hardware/Software
 
-    The live Slashdot used five separate servers for its high hit
-    count. This is not a target number for all Slash sites. You can
-    run all of Slash on one server, or throw it on 20 servers. The
-    more load you want it to handle, the more hardware you'll want.
-    Slash consists of three main parts: database, codebase, and web
-    server. How those are divvied up amongst servers is up to your
-    own creative planning. Slash runs on Linux but is not Linux
-    specific. Whatever runs Apache/mod_perl and MySQL will run
-    Slash. Slash does have some MySQL-specific SQL statements
-    contained within, but it's not entirely impossible to run it on
-    another RDBMS with some modifications.
+    The live Slashdot used five separate servers for its high hit count.
+    This is not a target number for all Slash sites. You can run all of
+    Slash on one server, or throw it on 20 servers. The more load you want
+    it to handle, the more hardware you'll want. Slash consists of three
+    main parts: database, codebase, and web server. How those are divvied up
+    amongst servers is up to your own creative planning. Slash runs on Linux
+    but is not Linux specific. Whatever runs Apache/mod_perl and MySQL will
+    run Slash. Slash does have some MySQL-specific SQL statements contained
+    within, but it's not entirely impossible to run it on another RDBMS with
+    some modifications.
 
   Documentation
 
-    Please read the various documents that come with the Slash code
-    (in docs/). There's a lot of information that can give you a
-    better idea of what the code does, how to install the code, and
-    other information on the database schema.
+    Please read the various documents that come with the Slash code (in
+    docs/). There's a lot of information that can give you a better idea of
+    what the code does, how to install the code, and other information on
+    the database schema.
 
     README
         this document (POD, HTML and plaintext)
@@ -76,17 +73,16 @@ DESCRIPTION
         how to install (POD, HTML and plaintext)
 
     slasherd.fig
-        the ERD diagram of the Slash database schema (use xfig to
-        read it)
+        the ERD diagram of the Slash database schema (use xfig to read it)
 
     slashtables.html/sdw/ps
-        a description of all the tables and columns of the database
-        schema (HTML, StarOffice, and PostScript)
+        a description of all the tables and columns of the database schema
+        (HTML, StarOffice, and PostScript)
 
   Installation
 
     See INSTALL.
 
 AUTHOR
-    Patrick Galbraith and Chris Nandor. Last Modified July 12, 2000.
+    Patrick Galbraith and Chris Nandor. Last Modified August 18, 2000.