Re: [IPROUTE] 2nd try

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:14:58 +0200
Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> wrote:

> David Miller schrieb am Mittwoch, den 18. Oktober 2006:
> 
> > From: Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de>
> > Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:03:07 +0200
> > 
> > > Stephen Hemminger schrieb am Mittwoch, den 18. Oktober 2006:
> > > 
> > > > Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > > > >I need more sleep this time hopefully with the manpage
> > > > >attached. 
> > >  
> > > > Amusing but hardly in keeping with the style and tone of other
> > > > man pages.
> > > Much better than nothing - just my 2 cent. 
> > 
> > In this case, I very much disagree.
> > 
> > If someone went out of their way to write a manpage, only to
> > end up belittling the tool and call it useless, this makes
> > their manpage contribution pretty worthless too.
> I'm not sure if this was his intention, I (as a non-native speaker)
> don't take it as hard as you and I know that the author was
> non-native too. So I will ask him for removal of the questionable
> section. I think without this section its a usefull manpage. 
> 
> Alex
> 

All I meant was that I was going to rewrite the intro part to try
and make it less snooty.  Ss is a useful tool, has zero documentation
and needs to be more widely used (and extended).

The page will be a start, its all a matter of editing.