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

[Peter Pentchev]

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 17:09:13 +0300

 On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 06:46:35AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
 > >Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:00:44 +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@
 > 
 > >On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:32:29AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
 > 
 > [PR about postmaster at FreeBSD.org email address documentation]
 > 
 > >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/
 > 
 > My current favorite is the 2nd --  the one with the "Postmaster
 > Team Prologue".  It's clear and unambiguous; it's easily changed as the
 > membership of the team changes.
 
 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
 
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  	<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>
  	</listitem>
        </varlistentry>
  
 > >Any other suggestions on wording this are welcome :)
 > 
 > :-)  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? :)
 
 > >If you think this sentence is confusing, then change one pig.
 > 
 > :-)  I recall reading that line in one of Hofstadter's columns -- I
 > think it was in his "Metamagical Themas" column in Scientific American
 > (successor column to Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games".
 
 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 :)
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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