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At 04:07 PM 4/19/2002, Doug Barton wrote:

>I long ago forgot what it was like to be a new
>FreeBSD user, 

This is part of the problem here. We should care a lot about
newcomers' experience, and respect the fact that no matter
how bright they are they cannot learn everything at once.
Expecting a new user to master CVSup is unreasonable.

--Brett


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