From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Mar 8 12:24:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8266337B41B for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:23:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020308202356.KAZU2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:23:56 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g28KNtK10242; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:23:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200203082023.g28KNtK10242@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Michael Lucas Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch for opinions In-reply-to: <20020308145629.A68153@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020308145629.A68153@blackhelicopters.org> Comments: In-reply-to Michael Lucas message dated "Fri, 08 Mar 2002 14:56:29 -0500." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 12:23:55 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If memory serves me right, Michael Lucas wrote: > I was reading the "contributing" article, and my literary > sensibilities were completely offended. This section is guilty of > overuse of exclamation ponits and the word "also", as well as > miscellaneous inefficiencies in writing. Attached please find a patch > for the first section of articles/contributing. (Not closely checked > for whitespace gratuitousness, mind you.) In principle, I think that cleanups like this are a Good Thing (TM). I haven't looked real closely at your patch due to the small deluge of 5.0-DP1 email that hit my inbox this morning. As long as you don't flame the original author too badly (:-)), I don't think there'll be a problem. Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message