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> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:12:01 -0500
> Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> 
> This seems like a rather bizarre justification....

What's bizarre about it?

> surely the _vast_ majority of people who read emacs-devel are
> interested in fixing bugs.

Any statistics on that?  Like, e.g., a comparison of the list of
subscribers to emacs-devel against the list of people whose names
appear in ChangeLog files?