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On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Brian Somers wrote:
> > I don't think Jordan's attitude is really that offensive (although his
> > mailing list persona is sort of grumpy).  I am actually more interested
> > that the operating system be made more solid in a general way rather than
> > seeing people scrambling to deal with the crisis du jour.
> 
> I think Jordan is faced with a rather unique perspective.  He's the 
> person that *must* be ``grumpy''.  No-one else `protects the 
> objectives' !
> 
> But, hey !  you're reading Jordan, aren't you ! ;-I
> 

Well. you know, time heals past wounds.