Grex Coop11 Conference Item 175

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PicoSpan Documentation Fix - Scribble-family Commands

Jun 1 02:52 UTC 2000

As cfadm, i'm starting to look at "fixing" the documentation of the
scribble family of commands in PicoSpan so that what they really do
is spelled out better.  (I don't have the rights, knowledge, etc. to
make any changes at all to BackTalk.)  I'm entering this item to ask
for specific, sorta-technical feedback on this process.  Please don't
drift off into policy debates, X-Files trival, Bush vs. Gore, etc. in
this item.

79 responses total.

response 1 of 79:

Jun 1 02:58 UTC 2000

First Question:  what PicoSpan (not BackTalk) commands do people know
of that give misleading or wrong information about what scribble, etc.
really do?  (Purpose - i'm trying to find all the places where i need
to fix the wording.)  I'm looking for responses along the lines of
"help foot-in-mouth at the PicoSpan Ok: prompt displays wrong info
about how the unsayit command works".

jep

response 2 of 79:

Jun 1 15:23 UTC 2000

The current "help scribble" command looks very good to me.  (I am the one
who first brought up the point that keeping the /bbs/censored file
readable, but not telling anyone, is deceptive.)  Here's the current
wording:

****    CENSOR  ****
Censor -- mark a response "censored"
Form:   censor N
or      scribble N

Mark a response "censored".  Unless "noforget" is
specified, it will not be shown.  "scribble" will
also scribble over the text (hence expunging it),
but not before it copies it to the possibly publically
readable file "/usr/bbs/censored"!

THESE COMMANDS ARE A LAST RESORT MEASURE.  ITS USE
IS STRONGLY NOT RECOMMENDED.  DO NOT USE!!!  (see
help etiquette, and it's probably too late anyway)

aruba

response 3 of 79:

Jun 1 15:57 UTC 2000

THe file name there is wrong - it should be /bbs/censored .  (Also
"publicly" is spelled wrong and the first two sentences in capital letters
disagree on the number of commands.)  I don't understand the last bit in
parentheses.

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