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

David Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org
Fri Sep 10 14:40:27 UTC 2004


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

From: David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org>
To: david at catwhisker.org, roam at ringlet.net
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 07:30:41 -0700 (PDT)

 >Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:09:13 +0300
 >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@
 
 >> [PR about postmaster at FreeBSD.org email address documentation]
 
 >All right then - so, combined with jmb's reply, this would yield the
 >following patch, added as the fourth patch now at
 >http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/pm/ with the result at
 >http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/pm/contrib-pm-team-dhw.html#STAFF-WHO
 
 Yup.
 
 >> :-)  Just recall Victor Borge's line (referring to the English
 >> language):  "It's *your* language; I'm just trying to *use* it!"
 
 >Yeah, only it's not mine - or did you mean it the other way round? :)
 
 The latter -- Borge was Danish.  :-)
 
 >> >If you think this sentence is confusing, then change one pig.
 
 >> ....  Hofstadter ....
 
 >Give the man a cigar!  I've been using Hofstadter's sample sentences in
 >email sigs for some time now; the full list that I'm using is available
 >at http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/misc/hoflines.txt :)
 
 I had noticed, but hadn't overcome the inertia enough to get around to
 commenting.  :-}
 
 [I actually bought a copy of _Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternel Golden
 Braid_ for a young lady some years ago.  And she married me anyway....]
 
 Peace,
 david
 -- 
 David H. Wolfskill				david at catwhisker.org
 Evidence of curmudgeonliness:  becoming irritated with the usage of the
 word "speed" in contexts referring to quantification of network
 performance, as opposed to "bandwidth" or "latency."



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