From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 16 21:37:18 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3C914FD4; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 21:37:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com ([203.197.137.102]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01626; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:06:27 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00609; Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:06:06 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:06:05 +0530 From: Greg Lehey To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Chris Costello , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 sysctl.conf.5 Message-ID: <20000117110605.C455@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <200001160515.VAA88306@freefall.freebsd.org> <200001162051.PAA16326@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001162051.PAA16326@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 03:51:04PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sunday, 16 January 2000 at 15:51:04 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > >> Replace a conjunction "you're" with "you are". This makes >> reading by non-native English speakers a little bit easier, and >> follows some basic doc guidelines. > > Manual pages should not use the second person. You shouldn't make blanket statements without explanation. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message