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Subject: Re: building a smarter gnus
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:18:42 -0500
Organization: What did you have in mind?  A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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John H Palmieri <palmieri@math.washington.edu> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 14:42:36 -0500, prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) said:
>>>> The manual used to say "backend", but it was changed at RMS's request.
>>>
>>> I hate to ask, but why?  (I'm sure it was on this list and I missed it).
>>
>> He didn't say, AFAICT.
>
> I think the issue was that "backend" is not a word, whereas "back" and
> "end" are.

That's how ShengHuo interpreted the request, but RMS didn't actually
say that, at least not in the message ShengHuo quoted.
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paul