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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { }
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 14:05:51 -0700
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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
[...]
> It was a while back now, but there was a time when I lobbied in this
> group for a slight relaxing of topicality rules - not by breaching
> those rules, but by inviting discussion, cavassing opinions, and
> collating them into a show of hands. By an overwhelming majority the
> group turned me down. I didn't tell them 'to hell with you, I'll
> discuss what I damn well want to, and if you don't like it, tough
> cheese'; I accepted the group's decision.
>
> There may well be some subscribers here who remember that discussion
> and might be prepared to corroborate the above.

<raises hand>

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */