I went through and corrected a few things in this text, and hopefully cleared a few things up. Free free to use the changes if and where they make sense, and ask questions if the changes or the reason for the change is unclear. A unified diff is attached. Don Armstrong -- She was alot like starbucks. IE, generic and expensive. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch3.htm http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
--- press.orig 2003-02-02 13:30:23.000000000 -0500 +++ press 2003-02-02 13:49:41.000000000 -0500 @@ -1,59 +1,60 @@ -Thank you for your interest in Debian GNU/Linux! +Thank you for your interest in Debian GNU/Linux and/or the Debian project! Due to the fact that we receive a lot of similar requests, we were forced to set up an automatic reply mechanism to reduce our workload and to actually be able to answer real requests again. It would simply cost us too much time to answer each mail manually - and this would keep us from important tasks. This means that we won't reply to -each mail manually but believe in the autoreply answering it properly. +each mail manually if we believe this autoreply answers it properly. We will, however, take a short glance at every mail and will answer as -soon as possible if we recognize unanswered questions. +soon as possible if we notice questions that are not answered by this +autoreply. 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