Re: Deb Docs

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Chris Tillman wrote:
  >On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:49:04AM -0500, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
  >> Along with ruthlessness in purging the old ruthlessness in
  >> dating would be a good idea.  The date of last edit should
  >> appear on a required line, like 1st, 2nd, or 3rd, in a
  >> required format, regardless of language, as yyyymmdd. 
 
  >I certainly think that would be a great idea.

But please distinguish between significant changes to the content and
minor corrections.

If someone were to correct a spelling mistake in a six-year-old document,
it would be true but misleading to say that it was last edited yesterday.

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