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From: joe mcguckin <joe@via.net>
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Robert,


Thank you for taking the time to cogently respond to Atte Peltomaki's
concerns regarding 5.X issues.

Not every FreeBSD user has time to keep up to date with the day-to-day news
that is disseminated via the mailing lists. It's a lot of email to read on a
daily basis.

As such, it's understandable that many FreeBSD users have a perception of
the project that is not shared by committers.

Responding to email's such as Atte's in a rational, well thought out manner
is much more productive than simply reacting in knee-jerk fashion by saying
"Please don't feed the trolls".

joe