From: Ben Goren (bentrumpetpower.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 23:09:50 CDT

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On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 10:02:46PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:

> A little more nitpicking.
>
> In: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/queueing.html
> CBQ queues are arranged in an hierarchical manner. At the top of the
> hierarchy is the
> ^^
> Should be
> CBQ queues are arranged in a hierarchical manner. At the top of the
> hierarchy is the
> ^

Actually, ``an'' is formally preferred over ``a'' when preceeding
a word starting with a soft ``h.'' You should expect to see,
``This is an historical moment.'' Many consider this pedantic and
only use ``an'' before words starting with a silent ``h'' such as
``hour.'' I'm not one of those many. On the other hand, both
_The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style_ and the American Heritage dictionary
prefer ``a.''

> In http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/filter.html:
> broadcast keywords. The resulting CIDR network (ie 192.168.0.0/24)
> ^^
> Should be:
> broadcast keywords. The resulting CIDR network (i.e. 192.168.0.0/24)
> ^^^^

I'll grant you this one, but style guides are increasingly
suggesting, not simply permitting, the omission of periods
in abbreviations. While U. S. A. is the most correct way of
abbreviating the uber-superpower's name, nearly everybody uses
USA.

Cheers,

b&

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