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> From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
> Cc: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:23:02 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > Not that I see how this is relevant: all I'm asking is not break it
> > more than it is already broken, so that the efforts to revive it won't
> > be harder than they have to.  The cost of this request is so low that
> > I'm bewildered why I need to justify it each time.
> 
> I think the perception is that the benefit is less than the cost,
> even if the latter is "low".

I submit that with a sufficiently low cost, the benefits are
irrelevant.