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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Getcher cards and letters in, folks!  COMMENT PERIOD CLOSING!
Message-ID: <7567@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 27 Mar 88 16:22:50 GMT
References: <4254@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4254@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>If you have complaints about the current state of the standard, ...

But please try to follow the guidelines I suggested previously,
for example: make sure that you are critiquing the actual draft
proposed standard and not your notion of what the draft says
based on hearsay; include specific draft references and propose
wording that would resolve your issue; include examples; etc.
The X3J11 committee has a lot of work to do to get a timely,
reasonably good standard published, and it will be slowed down
if it has to wade through a lot of drivel like that that often
infests this newsgroup.

This is a personal plea, not necessarily representing the
official views of X3J11 nor of any other committee member.