On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:28:51 -0800 Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> mentioned:
> First off, thanks for sorting these, that's a step in the right > direction. :) However, a few quibbles. First, our rule is that > anything which might offend someone belongs in fortunes-o, and > political quotes are always in the category of "might offend someone." > (FWIW, neither of these are offensive to me, I'm just pointing out the > general procedure.) > > Second, while it's clear at this point in time who these people are, > and what the context is, read through the fortune files sometime and > try to place who some of the people referenced are, when the quote was > relevant, etc. At minimum the quotes should be dated (IMO). > > Finally, let's pretend for a second that this is an international > project, and not assume that titles like "defense secretary" are > meaningful everywhere. :) > > Oh, and in the Rumsfeld quote you have "there're" twice, and in the > actual quote it's spelled out both times, "there are." > > I would change the citation in the first quote to read: > > -- United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld > 12 February 2002 > Personally I don't see the need to mention the context, but if you do > you could add "... 2002, On the invasion of Iraq" > > For the second, you could do something like: > > -- Daniel Fass, Chairman of United States President > Barack Obama's financial-industry fundraising party > I'll leave finding a date for that quote up to you. :) > Thanks for suggestions! What's regarding the "there're" spelling --- I'm not sure what the correct version is: I took this quote from the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, and it saved the original spelling. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
