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Tom Neff wrote:
> In my experience the only thing more exasperating than extended debates on
> an actual relevant subject (like 'how should a FAQ be formatted' on a FAQ
> maintainer's list) is content-free META-postings devoted to describing,
> deprecating, or trivializing the topics of others. In particular, I do not
> see how the list's purpose is served by Denis's long and somewhat
> supercilious Q:A: "summary."

Oh, I don't know -- I thought it was well done, and no more
supercilious than it ought to be. (It is, after all, ironic that
a mailing list for FAQ list maintainers should need its own FAQ
list, although it's been obvious since nearly the list's
inception that it could definitely use one.)

                                        Steve Summit
                                        scs@eskimo.com

-- 
Programming Challenge #6: Don't just fix the bug.
See http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/challenge/.

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