/etc/motd update

Royce Williams royce at tycho.org
Sun Sep 7 15:32:02 UTC 2014


On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:49 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
> Based on feedback from -arch, now there is a version that uses only harmless, inoffensive ASCII whitespace to delimit the commands:
>
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/motd/motd.whitespace

Not to bikeshed overmuch, but such usage of extra whitespace seems
odd/rare, and harms readability.

If the intent is to help new users get oriented, it doesn't serve the
intended purpose, IMO.

Better to offset with quotes or something:

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