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Thus spake Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>:
> The entire idea of "bit rot" is really "the code did not keep
> ``up to date'' with my changes, which broke the code", which
> is really a ridiculous position.
> 
> It really pissed me off when the AHA-1742 support dropped out
> when CAM came in, but that, at least, was understandable, since
> it was a trade: something deisrable for something less desirable
> to the majority of users.
> 
> You really *can not* blame breaking "something that used to work
> but which no longer works" on "evolution".

Aah...we'd better put uucp back in the base system, then.  Never mind
that it might have security problems that we don't know about.  :P

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