From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 23 11:11:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23956 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:11:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23950 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:11:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01148; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Studded cc: patl@phoenix.volant.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is xtend in the base system? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:00:05 PDT." <353F81A5.B8DF42B@san.rr.com> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:11:17 -0700 Message-ID: <1144.893355077@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > No, someone (perhaps you) posted an argument similar to the one you are > putting forward here in a previous post. That does not equal "settled" > in my book, as far as I'm concerned it's just another data point. The law of diminishing returns, however, would strongly suggest that it's time to kill this thread. If you're interested in making moral stands, make them elsewhere. Practically speaking, this issue is NOT worth the debate it has generated, whether there's an "entrenched status quo" or not. Let's not forget common sense in our choice of "causes", people! Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message