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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:25:46 +0000
From:      "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>
Cc:        doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/share/sgml news.xml
Message-ID:  <47d0403c0710270925t5e7a3fd1icb0f74621b82b98a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071027161336.GA1173@zaphod.nitro.dk>
References:  <200710271323.l9RDNNGa008408@repoman.freebsd.org> <47d0403c0710270759n47bf24f0laf8486e6da1530dd@mail.gmail.com> <20071027161336.GA1173@zaphod.nitro.dk>

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On 10/27/07, Simon L. Nielsen <simon@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 2007.10.27 14:59:12 +0000, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> > On 10/27/07, Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > miwi        2007-10-27 13:23:23 UTC
> > >
> > >   FreeBSD doc repository
> > >
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     share/sgml           news.xml
> > >   Log:
> > >   - Replace all @freebsd.org with @FreeBSD.org
> > >
> >
> > It is not immediately obvious to me -- what is the desired
> > benefit of this change?
>
> Consitency.
>
> > I know that domain names are case-insensitive, but
> > there seems to be somewhat of a tradition of using
> > all-lowercase characters for this sort of thing.
>
> The FreeBSD.org domain name is by convention / tradition written as
> "FreeBSD.org".  See also FreeBSD Doc Project Primer's word list.
>

Thanks for the replies.  I haven't read the primer in a couple of years,
and haven't been as active as I would like.

As per private mail to Martin, there are still references to the
(non-capitalized) www.freebsd.org, lists.freebsd.org, and wiki.freebsd.org
on that same page.  Should they be changed as well?

Thanks,

Ben Kaduk



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