www/server/standards boilerplate.html

[Karl Berry]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Karl Berry <karl>       07/11/26 19:54:29

Modified files:
        server/standards: boilerplate.html 

Log message:
        excise duplicate http, other wording

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/standards/boilerplate.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.28&r2=1.29

Patches:
Index: boilerplate.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/server/standards/boilerplate.html,v
retrieving revision 1.28
retrieving revision 1.29
diff -u -b -r1.28 -r1.29
--- boilerplate.html    24 Oct 2007 20:58:08 -0000      1.28
+++ boilerplate.html    26 Nov 2007 19:54:15 -0000      1.29
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 <!-- instance, the very first line of the file.  If you're reading -->
 <!-- this in its expanded form, you can retrieve the original source,  -->
 <!-- with the SSI statements intact, from -->
-<!-- 
http://http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/www/server/standards/boilerplate.html?root=www&content-type=text%2Fplain
+<!-- 
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/www/server/standards/boilerplate.html?root=www&content-type=text%2Fplain
 -->
 
 <!-- This document uses XHTML 1.0 Strict, but may be served as -->
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@
 [via http] and
 <a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/foo/";>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/foo/</a> 
 [via FTP].
-It can also be found on one of <a href="/prep/ftp">our FTP mirrors</a>.
+It can also be found on one of <a href="/prep/ftp">our FTP mirrors</a>;
+please use a mirror if possible.
 </p>
 
 <h3>Documentation</h3>
@@ -41,15 +42,16 @@
 <p>
 FOO documentation can be found at
 <a href="/manual/">http://www.gnu.org/manual/</a>.
-You may also find more information about FOO by looking at 
-<em>/usr/doc/foo/</em> or <em>/usr/local/doc/foo/</em> or by looking
-at man pages (<em>man foo</em> at the shell prompt) on your system.
+You may also find more information about FOO by running
+<em>info&nbsp;foo</em>, <em>man foo</em>, or looking at
+<em>/usr/doc/foo/</em> or <em>/usr/local/doc/foo/</em> 
+on your system.
 </p>
 
 <h3>Mailing Lists/Newsgroups</h3>
 
 <p>
-FOO now has two mailing lists: 
+FOO has two mailing lists: 
 <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a> and 
 <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.
 </p>
@@ -68,17 +70,19 @@
 </p>
 
 <p>
-Announcements about FOO and most other GNU Software are made on
+Announcements about FOO and most other GNU software are made on
 <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-To subscribe to these GNU mailing lists, please send an empty mail with
+To subscribe to these or any GNU mailing lists, please send an empty mail with
 a Subject: header line of just "subscribe" to the relevant -request
-list.  For example, to subscribe yourself to the main list for FOO, you
+list.  For example, to subscribe yourself to GNU announcement list, you
 would send mail to <a
-href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>
-with no body and a Subject: header line of just "subscribe".
+href="mailto:address@hidden";>&lt;address@hidden&gt;</a>
+with no body and a Subject: header line of just "subscribe".  Or you can
+use the <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu";>mailing
+list web interface</a>.
 </p>
 
 <!-- very unlikely
@@ -160,7 +164,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2007/10/24 20:58:08 $
+$Date: 2007/11/26 19:54:15 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>