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To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
cc: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth),
        Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Am I wrong or is this just stupid?r 
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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:26:30 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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In message <57u3tu2qcj.fsf@elsevier.co.uk>, Paul Richards writes:
>rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) writes:
>

I belive it has been communicated to both of these gentlemen, that if
somebody were to submit a set of makefile changes that were at least
tested and known to work for a couple of the normal cases, then they
would no doubt be adopted.

Pointing a finger at something and saying:  "This is wrong" has 
historically not been a method for encouraging progress.

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