From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [IPROUTE] 2nd try Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:22:04 -0700 Message-ID: <20061018222204.5b282c7b@localhost> References: <20061019044554.GB2936@formorer.de> <4537054D.1050607@osdl.org> <20061019050307.GN4602@ned.snow-crash.org> <20061018.221032.71094163.davem@davemloft.net> <20061019051458.GO4602@ned.snow-crash.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:2523 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161035AbWJSFWe (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:22:34 -0400 To: Alexander Wirt In-Reply-To: <20061019051458.GO4602@ned.snow-crash.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:14:58 +0200 Alexander Wirt wrote: > David Miller schrieb am Mittwoch, den 18. Oktober 2006: > > > From: Alexander Wirt > > 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.