Same here. With those HOWTOs I was able to learn networking from scratch in home without actually having internet connection. Good times :)

> Would anybody else write new HOWTOs?

I always wanted to, but because I'm not native English speaker I was always afraid to publish anything.

Still i think it could be very beneficial - especially that we all observed dozen of forums and websites just vanished over the last decade or two, but those documents are available to all as simple Linux package.