reply to Eric Raymond's "Understand my Job, Please!"

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

  bruce>  I was off the net for a while due to a broken DSL, so this is my
  bruce> first opportunity to reply to Eric Raymond's "Understand my Job,
  bruce> Please!".  Please read http://perens.com/Articles/EricsJob.html .

Could you please explain what relevance this message has to debian-devel?
This is _for_ Debian development, remember? Noise can go directly to /.

Allow me to quote you back to you:

    X-UIDL: 034f803c6dc5667630abb82274df1541
    From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
    To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
    Cc: bcwhite@debian.org
    Subject: Debian-devel is full of noise
    Date: Sun, 6 Jul 97 23:52 PDT

    The debian-devel discussions have been very noisy of late. It's
    becoming difficult to get much that is useful done on the list.

    [...]

Well said.  So up with the signal and down with the noise, please.

Thank you,  Dirk

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