From: John H Palmieri <palmieri@math.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: building a smarter gnus
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 14:09:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5t4rit3g86.fsf@goedel1.math.washington.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m37knpzv8c.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2002 15:43:57 -0500")
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:
>>
>> Paul> The manual used to say "backend", but it was changed at RMS's request.
>> Paul> Feel free to let him know how much you appreciate it. :)
>>
>> 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.
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J. H. Palmieri
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University of Washington http://www.math.washington.edu/~palmieri/
Seattle, WA 98195-4350
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-02 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-28 23:57 Wes Hardaker
2002-03-29 0:54 ` Paul Jarc
2002-04-02 17:06 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-04-02 19:42 ` Paul Jarc
2002-04-02 20:01 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-04-02 20:43 ` Paul Jarc
2002-04-02 22:09 ` John H Palmieri [this message]
2002-04-02 22:18 ` Paul Jarc
2002-04-02 22:35 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-04-02 22:39 ` Paul Jarc
2002-04-02 23:11 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-04-02 22:37 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-04-09 17:51 ` Toby Speight
2002-04-09 18:43 ` Paul Jarc
2002-04-02 23:00 ` Harry Putnam
2003-01-01 21:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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