* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Friday 14 October 2005 10:23:
>Title, well I just thought it was nice to insert a title.

Agreed.  :-)



> Version number and deletion of link: I'm always a bit frustrated when I open a
> document and read that it has last been updated 4 years ago, with a 
> link in the document that don't work anymore.

Removing the link was a good idea. But changing the version number was
just cosmetics, and actually a lie: it doesn't magically make the document
describe "0.9.8 or greater". I find this actually more frustrating. From
an old date/version number I can at least see *why* the contents are all
wrong.  ;-)



> At the company where I work as an IT guy if we update someone's work we add
> ourselves as the author so that people can see who are the authors and ask
> questions about the document to the new author also.

I would still not call that "author". Just editor. And I know this only
as adding a copyright line with appropriate date, and mostly in source
code. This isn't normally done in fgfs documents AFAIK. There's ususally only
one -- the real -- author named in the documents. All fgfs developers that
edit the file can be found in the cvs log and are of no interest to the
reader.

m.



-- 
"Faust", New Author: Melchior FRANZ  (Former Author: Johann W. von GOETHE :-)

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