On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
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> " its no guarantee that they'll get the posts or even read them"
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> As I understand this issue, they do listen in quite attentively, but only
> contribute sparsely. So it is not so much that they do not read the post,
> but that it is not always clear whether they should act upon it.
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I was under this impression too, but there's no harm in using the
official channels, it is after all why they are there and it ensures
that it is duly noted (similar to filing "bug reports" for various
software distributions v's posting on forums/mailing lists when you
have a problem).
Neil
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of data." ~ John Tukey (1986), "Sunset salvo". The American
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