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On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
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> Based on feedback from -arch, now there is a version that uses only harmless, inoffensive ASCII whitespace to delimit the commands:
>
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd.whitespace

Not to bikeshed overmuch, but such usage of extra whitespace seems
odd/rare, and harms readability.

If the intent is to help new users get oriented, it doesn't serve the
intended purpose, IMO.

Better to offset with quotes or something:

Other questions or problems can be emailed to the questions@FreeBSD.org
mailing list.  Please include the output of "uname -a" and any relevant
error messages.  The "man man" command gives an introduction to manual
pages, and hier(7) describes the FreeBSD directory layout.

Royce