From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 21:16:26 2003 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 5679116A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:16:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F04B43FDF for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 21:16:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([192.168.0.5]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id hB45GN6q007997; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 00:16:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 00:16:13 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Message-Id: <20031204001613.4cefdf4a.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <69ad69gr7f.d69@mail.comcast.net> References: <3FCBB04F.7070204@potentialtech.com> <20031201221825.GB10158@jenny.daemon.li> <20031202053708.GC71732@unixpages.org> <20031202090021.GA269@jenny.daemon.li> <20031202112217.23a48871.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20031202162745.GE71732@unixpages.org> <20031202114420.00233193.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <3FCCC589.8040700@potentialtech.com> <69ad69gr7f.d69@mail.comcast.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposed addition to the mail section of the handbook 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, 04 Dec 2003 05:16:26 -0000 On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:08:36 -0800 underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: > Bill Moran writes: > > > This looks authoritative: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style-word-list.html > > Is anyone besides me suprised to see that page? > > I'd like to know something about its history. Some words about FDP > governance would be welcome too; it seems I haven't figured it out in > three years. (I've looked for info on both at www.freebsd.org, even > using the CVS and list search tools, but didn't find anything useful > with a reasonable amount of effort.) To my recollection, this was in place before I became a committer. Its main purpose is to keep disputes over the alternate spellings of some words to a minimum. -- Tom Rhodes