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Date:      Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:11:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        dan@langille.org (Dan Langille)
Cc:        przemek@my.tenbit.pl (Przemyslaw Brojewski), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Releases
Message-ID:  <200104091911.MAA32457@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104100635000.38514-100000@xeon.int.nz.freebsd.org> from Dan Langille at "Apr 10, 2001 06:36:50 am"

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> On Mon, 9 Apr 101, Przemyslaw Brojewski wrote:
> 
> > > > Change the designation just because some admins don't know how to RTFM?  I
> > > > don't think so... They fu*ked up.  Plain and simple.  -CURRENT makes sense,
> > > > and more importantly is documented for those who take the time to look.
> > >
> > > With self-documenting labels documentation becomes unnecessary.
> > >
> > There's not such thing as self-documenting labels.
> 
> Sure there are.  You see them everyday.  On example :push: on a door.

And how many times have you mistakenly pulled on that door so labeled??
If you say zero, you sould probably think about it harder.  If you go,
hummm, yep, even with stuff that has ``self-docuemnting labels'' some
people just don't read them and will :pull: when it clearly says :push:.


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Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net

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