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Subject: Re: why bother submitting anything (via send-pr) 
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:01:46 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Pedro Giffuni S, wrote:
> 
> > Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> > > 
> > > It might help to Cc the original pr to the person who (should) be
> > > responsible.  Any reason for a follow-up can also remind someone
> > > of the pr, too.  :-)
> >
> > It is not always clear who is responsible, specially if you are not a
> > developer..:-(.
> 
> CVS logs are publicly available and show who the last person to
> touch a given piece of code is.  By the Law of CyberSpace, the
> last person to touch a piece of code is responsible.  :-)

He he :-), that puts Philippe Charnier in charge of most of FreeBSD !!!

> Of course, that doesn't mean they _are_ responsible...  It just
> means they _should be_...  ;-)

Oh well.

> --
>  tIM...HOEk
> OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names
>               hoping that the resultant code will run faster.
> 

-- 
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