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Subject: Re: Tomorrow 
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   of "Mon, 26 May 2003 19:13:58 PST." <20030527031358.GF32642@plato.local.lan>
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Ethan Benson writes:

 => so long as it can be turned off at compile time, and the broken
 => behavior is never default im happy.  still would rather see you guys
 => working on more important things.=20

It's obviously more important than you think or else we wouldn't
be working on it... No one is remotely interested in making it
default anywhere - it's an extra feature that will be extremely
useful in certain specific situations and provide much better
performance in those situations than any user space hack could
provide.

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