From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Don Armstrong'" <don@donarmstrong.com>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: BJM: Fan mail from some flounder? RJS: No, this is what Ireally call a message...
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:32:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002d01c8dba8$d7f78250$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080701182632.GK6711@volo.donarmstrong.com>
> > Sorry, but I cannot fathom this. I came across these three messages,
> > floating in a sea of others that look similar.
> >
> > Two of them say that I should expect "a substantive response
> > shortly" from Glenn. The third refers cryptically to bugs #398 and
> > #239 (but also to other, unrelated bugs), telling me that "'close'
> > is deprecated" and (euphemistically? ;-)) inviting me to send any
> > further explanations to myself.
>
> The reason why close is deprecated is precisely because it has no
> information as to why the bug was closed. It should not be used.
>
> If you're reaching for close, send a message to bugnum-done instead.
Sorry, but was that intended for me?
I'm not "reaching for close". I have nothing to do with "close". Someone (or
something) else wrote "close". I just forwarded the crazy mails I received that
use "close".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-01 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-01 7:49 BJM: Fan mail from some flounder? RJS: No, this is what I really call a message Drew Adams
2008-07-01 18:26 ` Don Armstrong
2008-07-01 18:32 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-07-01 19:15 ` BJM: Fan mail from some flounder? RJS: No, this is what Ireally " Don Armstrong
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