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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:26:23 -0500
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From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
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Hi,

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 03:58:41AM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>> > You seem to be obsessed by picking over
>> > semantics and finding shortcomings to be aggreived over.
>> >
>> Semantics and proper, independent, API are crucial.
>
> I'm talking about the semantics of the non-technical part: the wording
> of things that people post in email. =A0viz: the time-wasting nonsense
> about "oh, it seems to be released already, has anyone noticed?" from
> a few weeks ago.
>
> It was 100% FUD, which apparently you knew perfectly well at the time,
> and thus AFAICT only posted it to draw attention to yourself.
>
> That's the drama I'm talking about.
>
you are misquoting and misinterpreting me, I merely asked "Has 9.0
been released ?", followed by misleading clues I tried to gather in a
thread where the original poster's uname shown "9-RELEASE". I see no
FUD in this and none was intended.

The rest of the thread indeed went ballistic.

 - Arnaud