Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:10:33 GMT From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/71529: (Strongly!) suggested change to listed address for postmaster@ Message-ID: <200409101410.i8AEAXfL077200@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/71529; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, jmb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/71529: (Strongly!) suggested change to listed address for postmaster@ Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:09:13 +0300 On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 06:46:35AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:00:44 +0300 > >From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> > >To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> > >Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, jmb@FreeBSD.org > >Subject: Re: docs/71529: (Strongly!) suggested change to listed address for postmaster@ > > >On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:32:29AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > [PR about postmaster@FreeBSD.org email address documentation] > > >What do you think about the following three patches? You can see them > >and the resulting versions of the Contributors article at > >http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/pm/ > > My current favorite is the 2nd -- the one with the "Postmaster > Team Prologue". It's clear and unambiguous; it's easily changed as the > membership of the team changes. All right then - so, combined with jmb's reply, this would yield the following patch, added as the fourth patch now at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/pm/ with the result at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/pm/contrib-pm-team-dhw.html#STAFF-WHO Index: article.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/article.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.433 diff -u -r1.433 article.sgml --- article.sgml 8 Aug 2004 13:43:53 -0000 1.433 +++ article.sgml 10 Sep 2004 13:55:34 -0000 @@ -510,8 +510,9 @@ <term>Postmaster</term> <listitem> - <para>&a.dhw;,</para> - <para>&a.jmb;</para> + <para>FreeBSD.org Postmaster team + <email>postmaster@FreeBSD.org</email>, which includes:</para> + <para>David Wolfskill</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> > >Any other suggestions on wording this are welcome :) > > :-) Just recall Victor Borge's line (referring to the English > language): "It's *your* language; I'm just trying to *use* it!" Yeah, only it's not mine - or did you mean it the other way round? :) > >If you think this sentence is confusing, then change one pig. > > :-) I recall reading that line in one of Hofstadter's columns -- I > think it was in his "Metamagical Themas" column in Scientific American > (successor column to Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games". Give the man a cigar! I've been using Hofstadter's sample sentences in email sigs for some time now; the full list that I'm using is available at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/misc/hoflines.txt :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@cnsys.bg roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If the meanings of 'true' and 'false' were switched, then this sentence wouldn't be false.
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