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Re: Fetchmail and Eric Raymond

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Ihnat)
Tue Dec 1 21:26:37 1998

From: ignatz@homebru.chi.il.us (Dave Ihnat)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 20:21:19 -0600 (CST)
Cc: gt-pfrc@mystery.com (gt)
In-Reply-To: <01BE1D67.89BDB1E0.brichardson@lineone.net> from "Bruce Richardson" at Dec 1, 98 08:16:04 pm
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Bruce Richardson wrote:

> Just been reading through the fetchmail documentation and came to the
> following conclusions:
> 1.  Eric Raymond is an arrogant sod
> 2.  Arrogant sods write excellent documentation, because they want you
>     to know exactly how good their product is.
>
> (It helps when it _is_ a good product)
>
> It's not just the documentation, even the man page is readable{8-0)
>
> Could do with more of that kind of thing.

Heh.  I'll forward this to a forum that (a) will appreciate it, and (b) Eric
reads.
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	Dave Ihnat
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