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From: jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Simple editors aren't GNU Emacs
Summary: what are you talking about?
Message-ID: <13374@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 3 Sep 88 14:43:29 GMT
References: <8809011727.AA00270@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> <1988Sep2.191134.24624@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: jds@mimsy.umd.edu (James da Silva)
Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science
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In article <1988Sep2.191134.24624@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
woods@gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
>
>Sorry, but all emacs editors aren't GNU Emacs!
>
>I must agree that there has been a lot of noise here lately (and yes,
>this is just more of the same).  Most of this noise could more
>appropriately be directed into comp.editors (hint hint), but as for
>offending GNU Emacs users, just be glad this isn't gnu.emacs we're
>blabbering in!  (No, I didn't set a Followup-To:.)
>-- 
>						Greg Woods.

Eh?  The article that you are refering to (<8809011727.AA00270@sugar-bombs>)
was posted only to gnu.emacs and was refering to the cross-posting of the
Simple Editors discussion into gnu.emacs, which is gatewayed to an internet 
mailing-list.  If you've ever been on a mailing list you know that people
get particularly annoyed at extraneous traffic; it's much more of a burden
than in a newsgroup.

I don't think that RMS or anyone else has a problem with the discussion of
*any* emacs, large or small, in comp.emacs.  Perhaps somewhere along the line
you are getting gnu.emacs articles stuck in comp.emacs, or maybe you've been
reading too much news?  :-)

					- Jaime

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