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From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990
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Date: 21 Sep 90 11:50:39 GMT
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In-reply-to: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org's message of 20 Sep 90 04:13:27 GMT

In article <18549@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
<
< i know better than to get involved in this ...
[ but does anyway ... ]
< 
< both dates and numbers are sequential.  july always follows june, just
< as 7 always follows 6.  yet there are no numbers intervening 6 and 7,
< unlike jun-01-90 and jul-31-90.  thus, there is more information
< contained in the statement "this is patch #7" than in "this is patch
< jul-31-90".

well, the obvious solution to this problem is to simply release one
patch per day.  :->

-wayne