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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: /etc/motd update
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On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Warren Block wrote:
>
>> Agreed.  Updated, shorter version:
>>
>> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd
>> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd.diff
>
>
> % o  Documents installed with the system are in /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd.
>
> That line is only 75 characters, so I would strongly recommend to use a
> trailing slash on the 'freebsd' directory, which would eliminate potential
> problems from copying the full stop at the end of the sentence.

Added the trailing slash, and reworded to avoid the sentence ending 
right there.  The current version is
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd.whitespace-url

Summary and suggestions posted in -arch:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2014-September/015906.html