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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <3270@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 18 Jun 91 11:31:08 GMT
References: <27098@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> <3253@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <7326@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <7326@vela.acs.oakland.edu> w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil writes:
>I think everyone is missing the main question.  Why didn't the
>original complainer send a private e-mail to the author (whose address
>*was* provided), asking if he would please add 8th bit support to his
>editor.  Instead of doing that, the complainer posted to the whole
>world that he was throwing the editor away because it didn't support
>the 8th bit.  That was NOT fair to the author.  You didn't give him a
>chance!

I assume that the purpose of Einar's posting was not to get this bug
fixed in this particular program (which a letter to the author would have
done quite nicely), but to draw attention to the problem in general and
to create a bit of discussion......

-frisk (who cannot even sign the letter with his full name, because the 
        News softaware does not allow 8-bit messages outside Iceland)