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From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Two new Zippy'ism contributions
Date: 20 Jun 2006 04:47:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86lkrs82w0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: buou06gwp7b.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com

>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> writes:

Miles> I'm not sure whether that's better or worse than the command simply
Miles> ceasing to work...

It will probably inspire people to ask "WTF".  The front of the file should
make clear what the history of the file has been, including the recent action,
and that the format of the file hasn't changed, only the content.

The astute will know how to take it from there.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-20 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-19 20:56 Two new Zippy'ism contributions Andrew M. Scott
2006-06-20  2:11 ` Miles Bader
2006-06-20 11:47   ` Randal L. Schwartz [this message]
2006-06-20 13:38   ` Drew Adams
2006-06-20 17:56   ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-20 22:11     ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-21 12:42       ` Randal L. Schwartz
2006-06-21 16:33       ` Jay Belanger
2006-06-22  9:11         ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-22  9:24           ` Miles Bader
2006-06-22 22:15             ` Richard Stallman

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