Re: Misc proofreading.

From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 09:08:55 CDT


In <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307200343420.1886-100000@green.darkmere.gen.nz> Simon Lyall <simon@darkmere.gen.nz> writes:

>I notice that "message ID" is used in a couple of places ( The Appendixes
>and the ihave control message sections) but elsewhere we always use
>"message identifier"

Fixed. (The ones in the Appendices were a relic of Son-of-1036.)

>I also notice that the formatting seems to have split some terms that have
>"-" in the middle (like "Content-Transfer-Encoding" ) into pieces, which
>may not be desired. Just about every line with a trailing "-" is an
>example of this.

I think this is a "feature" or nroff. But, in any case, you would get some
very funny line lengths if you forbade it, because a lot of these
syntactic names get very long.

>8.2.2 Item 1 probably should have "Injector-Info-header" instead of
>"Injector-Info-"

No, no! "abc-header or def-header" is regularly abbreviated to "abc- or
def-header".

>Also the year in the Copyright statement at the bottom needs to be updated.

OK.

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