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Date:      Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:30:27 -0500
From:      Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Archive pruning
Message-ID:  <00042515302702.02802@nomad.dataplex.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004251312170.14778-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004251312170.14778-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> > Actually, I didn't start this. Someone else brought up the idea.
>
> ...and quickly decided it was not worthwhile.

Yes, the developers do a good job of repressing opinions that differ from 
their own.

> > The quiet majority that might benefit are not very likely to speak up
> > when they are told some is impossible. After all, they are at the mercy
> > of the very developers who oppose change because it does not directly
> > benefit the developers.
> >
> > I do object to the characterization by these developers that it CANNOT be
> > done.
>
> I haven't heard anyone say that. What I have heard is "too much work for
> too little gain". If you still disagree, it's time to put up or shut up

And if I put up, will you (the organization) use it? It's certainly too much 
work to prove the obvious. I don't have to convince myself of anything.
The only value accrues if it gets used.


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