Re: Is it OK to fix typos in quotes/old mails?
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:39:26AM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote:
> the source of www.debian.org contains many quotes, IRC logs and copies of
> mails such as english/News/weekly/1999/18/mail.wml.
>
> Now I want to know: Is it OK to fix typos in these documents?
>
> I think yes it is, since these documents mainly exists to adapt
> formating and style to www.debian.org and to allow translations.
>
> Is it necessary to ask each of the individual authors first? What
> happens if the mail is signed (we can remove signatures)?
>
> Please note that the location of original mails is the mailing list
Please don't fix typos in quotes. If they become a problem, we
should mark them with "[sic]", not rewrite history.
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Matt Kraai kraai@ftbfs.org http://ftbfs.org/
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