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
--
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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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