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Matt Turner posted on Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:29:09 -0800 as excerpted: |
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> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Do you realize that you just wrote a two-and-a-half page single-spaced |
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> thousand-word email? Seriously, this is way too much. This mailing list |
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> is way too much. |
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173 lines (of about 72 chars) according to my client (reporting the value |
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given in the gmane overviews, I believe). 150+, including quoted |
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material of perhaps 20-50 lines, aren't unusual here. 400+ are not |
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unheard of. |
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I was posting a bit of gentoo history behind a policy in question. |
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History tends to /be/ a bit wordy at a reasonable level of detail, as |
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necessary there to explain the reasoning[1] behind the policy being |
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questioned. |
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[1] Again, as I understand it, subject to correction by others there and |
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closer to the process. No claims of infallibility here! |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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