Improving /etc/motd and ANSI

[Lars Engels]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 10:32:50PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Warren Block wrote this message on Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 18:01 -0600:
> > As another experiment, here is a version using whitespace:
> > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd.whitespace
> > 
> > While it's not as clear as the ANSI version, it is better than the 
> > troff-style quotes version.  Still requires 7-bit ASCII, though. :)
> 
> The whitespace one is good, but you should have a : after the with...
> 
> Also, we should reference a url for questions or problems, and not
> include questions@ in the motd...  The url can better include
> information, and other places to find help, like for forums..

+1 for adding https://forums.freebsd.org to motd.

Both motd and the forums are there to help newbies.
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