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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm 2.2 PL20 sysalias unofficial patch
Keywords: elm 2.2 PL10 sysalias unofficial patch
Message-ID: <193@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Sep 89 16:23:35 GMT
References: <870@wubios.wustl.edu> <27062@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
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In article <27062@amdcad.AMD.COM> indra@hobbes.AMD.COM (Indra Singhal) writes:
>I am not sure how everyone else feels, but posting unofficial patches on the
>net is a sure way of causing confusion.

I strongly disagree with this.  It is clear which are official patches and
which are unofficial, if you don't want to apply unofficial patches, there's
no need to.  The `patch' program makes it easy to uninstall a patch when an
official fix comes round (provided you keep the original patch around of
course), or there's no problem if you use RCS or s.t. to keep things under
control.

Please, keep your patches coming.

Rob
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