From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: <002d01c8dba8$d7f78250$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <003601c8db4e$f3b3fb90$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <20080701182632.GK6711@volo.donarmstrong.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214937259 10292 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2008 18:34:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:34:19 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Don Armstrong'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 01 20:35:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KDkgj-0005Rw-Iz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:34:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57626 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDkfq-0002xk-MY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDkfm-0002x7-C0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:33:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDkfl-0002wv-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:33:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49149 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDkfl-0002ws-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:32380) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDkfl-00057X-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m61IXWLC011845; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:33:32 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m618prev021068; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:33:32 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3702137201214937159; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:32:39 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/67.174.192.82) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:32:39 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20080701182632.GK6711@volo.donarmstrong.com> Thread-Index: AcjbqAoS4GI/HepBRxq3pLW0AkE0xAAAHXuA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100273 Archived-At: > > 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".