netbsd-docs: Re: 7 points user's memo

Subject: Re: 7 points user's memo
To: None <netbsd-docs@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Ball <aball@students.prairiestate.edu>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 04/02/2007 15:12:04

Hello Przemysl/aw
 PP> "No" has the same meaning (sometimes positive) as "yes"
 > (seometimes negative). I know that.
The only example that springs to mind is on active-low chip inputs,
and even then it's just because people associate low with "no". Other
than that I have no idea what you might mean.
 PP> Everyone said aloud his opinion and that's all.
That's often the way that conversation works.
 PP> No, the accent is not on "suggestions" I've made but on the
 > time: "for the last time". In other words I declare that for the
 > last time I submit in the mailing list any idea of mine.
You're not going to write any more?
 PP> And to alleviate the utterance which could sound to many
 > blasphemously :-), I added that "it is not a threat" from my
 > side that "I never ever open my mouth to you" (it is a subtle
 > joke, a self-irony)...
It loses something in translation.
 PP> I don't want to write to ephemeral "www team", but to names
 > "with blood and bones."
I have no idea what that means.
 PP> That's only a restatement of facts. When Zafar Aydogan (wiki
 > maintainer) wrotes the "documentation is a rot" what do you
 > think it is? An accolade?
In the message that I read, Zafar wrote "So it starts to rot", which
was based I think on the misconception that xml diffs were the only
vehicle for doc corrections. I'll let Zafar clarify that. If he
wrote that the "documentation is a rot", then it may have been in a
private message, off-list. Note that these two have very different
meanings.
 PP> You gave me a sparse occasion to write on substance of my ideas.
You can write whenever. People will reply in their own time. That is
the nature of a mailing list.
- Andrew Ball.