From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 15:25:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4F416A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:25:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.35.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6522443D31 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:25:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i2PNOtui049506; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:24:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.9/8.12.3/Submit) id i2PNOr5V049505; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:24:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marc) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:24:52 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Message-ID: <20040325232452.GC37920@abigail.blackend.org> References: <20040323090317.GD20372@ip.net.ua> <20040325090257.GA36775@abigail.blackend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Spelling of "file system" X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:25:03 -0000 On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:45:03AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Marc Fonvieille writes: > > > We have: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style-word-list.html > > and I read "file system". Maybe we should follow the list we wrote. > > "We" wrote? Who's "we"? I googled *freebsd* groups for > "writing-style-word-list" and found that the only mention of it is an > off-hand reference to it in one thread last December. It's CVS log > has one entry from Jun'03, in which "blackend" claims to add "disk > label" to "the word list", with the only clue to its origin being a > Nik Clayton copyright claim. It seems that this part of the > "FreeBSD Doceng Team Charter" needs a re-write: > [...] Please re-read carefully http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.sgml and for example docs/42256 Marc