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Gary,

Nobody in FreeBSD has the right to annoy developers by whining at them.

Everybody on the other hand, has an _obligation_ to work constructively
to improve FreeBSD.

Here is a simple litmus test:

	If your message contains the two words "somebody should"
	next to each other in that order, then it is very likely
	in the first (ie: wrong) category.

If you feel something should be done, then do it or pay somebody
to do it, don't pontificate that the nonexistant committer "somebody"
should do it.

Poul-Henning

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.