From owner-freebsd-security Fri May 31 15:34:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24FE37B40C; Fri, 31 May 2002 15:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0324.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.69] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17Duy7-0006fJ-00; Fri, 31 May 2002 15:34:00 -0700 Message-ID: <3CF7FA34.730A5BB4@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 15:33:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Hunt Cc: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , Well Educated , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: typo in FreeBSD-SA-02:27.rc References: <3CF78D95.C96C85D1@nospam.nospam.net> <004201c208b6$95081480$93ec910c@daleco> <3CF7E724.830661C4@mindspring.com> <20020531144536.A42486@wopr.caltech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:12:04PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > It's the content, not the form, which is important in messages, folks. > > Just as we make a specific effort to write "FreeBSD" instead of "Free BSD", > "freebsd", or "FreeBDS" (as often seen on mailing lists) in our official > communications, and indeed have standardized on "FreeBSD.org" instead of > "freebsd.org", we should respect the wishes of other software authors, > and refer to their work in the way that they prefer. > > Failure to do so indicates that we are ignorant of their wishes or that > we are dissmissing them as irrelevant. Neither perception flatters us. Totally unlike public flame-fests about spelling, calling attention to the error, making *certain* that people who might otherwise not have seen it and remain unoffended by the mistake, are dragged kicking and screaming into things, right? I think a simple note to the author (instead of a mailing lists) would have accomplished what you *claim* should be accomplished, as opposed to what you appear to really be attempting to accomplish. 8^p. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message