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From: imp@marvin.Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh)
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Subject: Re: Jargon File Editorial Philosophy
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Date: 14 Dec 90 00:36:42 GMT
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In article <12418@milton.u.washington.edu> mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
>Personally, I've never heard of some of the entries you added; nor has
>anyone else I've talked to.  That doesn't mean that they shouldn't be
>in there; but it does indicate that you should not be taking such a
>superior tone.

I have been hacking for over 15 years now (not much in comparison to
Mark), and I haven't heard of half of the new things added to jargon
file.  And I'm a dweeb!  Please, if you are going to reinvent jargon
for a whole industry, please don't get offended when people just
refuse to change......

Warner
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