The Wanderer wrote: > That's maintainership history, with E-mail > addresses attached.
There should be no history entries in the man pages that relates to practical aspects that are no longer operational. Commands, examples that once worked but are now removed, options that are obsolete/deprecated, or indeed e-mails that bounces and thus cannot be used, none of that has any place, anywhere, in the man pages. The man pages should be about the tool today, and history notes should be allowed only so far as they don't reduce the practical usefulness of the documentation and by extension tool use itself. This whole discussion is an example of why you don't want incorrect information in documentation. To me, that's pretty clear without an example, but if you need one to use in discussion, feel free to use this. "Here is what happens, if you include incorrect tech information in manpages and think that is OK." -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal