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From: wescott@Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
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Subject: Re: More on Polling and uusched
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Date: 9 Mar 90 18:06:37 GMT
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In article <3000@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> > You don't really want it to fail silently, regardless of the reason.

> Uh, yes, I do; that's why, at one place, I modified "uucico" to
> specifically know about "Never" (or maybe I called it "Slave" or
> something) and not bother to let me know something I already *did* know,

I'd argue that it's the cases where you don't know and are trying to
debug that you want definite reasons for failure to call.  On the other
hand there is room for compromise.  One could disble "Wrong time to call"
logging if "Never" is found and if debug == 0.

	-Mike

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