docs/71529: (Strongly!) suggested change to listed address for postmaster@

Peter Pentchev roam at ringlet.net
Fri Sep 10 09:00:44 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR docs/71529; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
To: David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, jmb at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/71529: (Strongly!) suggested change to listed address for postmaster@
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:00:44 +0300

 On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:32:29AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         71529
 > >Category:       docs
 > >Synopsis:       (Strongly!) suggested change to listed address for postmaster@
 > >Originator:     David Wolfskill
 > >Description:
 > Under "Postmaster," doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/article.sgml
 > currently shows Jonathan's name & address address as well as mine.
 [snip]
 > I believe that changing the given email address(es) to just
 > "postmaster at FreeBSD.org" would better serve folks in need of contacting
 > Postmaster and suggest that the docs be changed to reflect that.
 
 What do you think about the following three patches?  You can see them
 and the resulting versions of the Contributors article at
 http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/pm/
 
 First patch: add 'reachable via' at the end:
 
 Index: article.sgml
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/article.sgml,v
 retrieving revision 1.433
 diff -u -r1.433 article.sgml
 --- article.sgml	8 Aug 2004 13:43:53 -0000	1.433
 +++ article.sgml	10 Sep 2004 08:35:53 -0000
 @@ -510,8 +510,10 @@
  	<term>Postmaster</term>
  
  	<listitem>
 -	  <para>&a.dhw;,</para>
 -	  <para>&a.jmb;</para>
 +	  <para>David Wolfskill,</para>
 +	  <para>Jonathan M. Bresler</para>
 +	  <para>Both are reachable via the
 +	    <email>postmaster at FreeBSD.org</email> address.</para>
  	</listitem>
        </varlistentry>
  
 ----------------
 
 Second patch: add a 'Postmaster team' prologue:
 
 Index: article.sgml
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/article.sgml,v
 retrieving revision 1.433
 diff -u -r1.433 article.sgml
 --- article.sgml	8 Aug 2004 13:43:53 -0000	1.433
 +++ article.sgml	10 Sep 2004 08:38:15 -0000
 @@ -510,8 +510,10 @@
  	<term>Postmaster</term>
  
  	<listitem>
 -	  <para>&a.dhw;,</para>
 -	  <para>&a.jmb;</para>
 +	  <para>FreeBSD.org Postmaster team
 +	    <email>postmaster at FreeBSD.org</email>, which includes:</para>
 +	  <para>David Wolfskill,</para>
 +	  <para>Jonathan M. Bresler</para>
  	</listitem>
        </varlistentry>
  
 --------------
 
 Third patch: remove jmb@, add 'reachable via':
 
 Index: article.sgml
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/article.sgml,v
 retrieving revision 1.433
 diff -u -r1.433 article.sgml
 --- article.sgml	8 Aug 2004 13:43:53 -0000	1.433
 +++ article.sgml	10 Sep 2004 08:39:39 -0000
 @@ -510,8 +510,8 @@
  	<term>Postmaster</term>
  
  	<listitem>
 -	  <para>&a.dhw;,</para>
 -	  <para>&a.jmb;</para>
 +	  <para>David Wolfskill, reachable via the
 +	    <email>postmaster at FreeBSD.org</email> address.</para>
  	</listitem>
        </varlistentry>
  
 Any other suggestions on wording this are welcome :)
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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