From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 12 18:48:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D91D5106566B for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:48:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 65-241-43-4.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 612E114FD0F; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:48:53 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E1C9714.6090507@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:48:52 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110706 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Evans References: <10589627.445480.1310418556785.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> <20110712202759.H1311@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20110712202759.H1311@besplex.bde.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2pre OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD FS , Benjamin Kaduk Subject: Re: request for review of exports.5 update X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:48:53 -0000 On 07/12/2011 03:50, Bruce Evans wrote: > Also, there is a rule against contractions (e.g., "it's"), so there > is presumably a rule against nonstandard abbreviations (e.g., "w.r.t."). Yes to both, the reason being that we want to make life as easy as possible for non-native English readers (and maybe someday even translators). Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/