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At 09:33 22/04/99 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi,
>i'm the original author of this mega thread, and i am very
>sorry about ever having started it.

If a discussion has some kind of result, you should never
be sorry about it. Besides, I really wouldn't call this a
mega thread.

>I didn't want to accuse anybody, but i never got such an 
>unfriendly answer to any bugreport i made, before.

I realized that when I saw the mail, so I wanted to explain
why that person got so upset.

[snip]
>The goal of reporting a bug is to get it fixes. If you call that
>help, you are right, of course.

If you report a bugfix, the help you get is that it will 
probabely be fixed in the next release. That isn't asking
for help, but if you want a way to circumvent the problem, 
you're asking for help.

>
>> and I don't blame him for that, but I do blame him for
>> wanting the help privately mailed rather than openly
>> discussed. 
> I thought a cc is an additional copy of an email? So where comes
> your 'privately mailed' from? 

Some weird bug in my brain that'll certainly be fixed in the next
release :-)

The problem for you with the CC answers was in one of the 
previous mails so I won't repeat it here.


Hope this closes the discussion,
Gian-Carlo