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- From: dodd@mycenae.cchem (Lawrence R. Dodd)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: COOKIES
- Message-ID: <DODD.92Jul31102037@mycenae.cchem>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:20:37 GMT
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- Organization: Dept of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In-reply-to: gritton@alaska.et.byu.edu's message of Fri, 31 Jul 92 09:27:12 MDT
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- >>>>> On Fri, 31 Jul 92 09:27:12 MDT, gritton@alaska.et.byu.edu (Jamie Gritton) said:
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- Jamie> The COOKIES file included in the emacs distribution is ridiculous.
- Jamie> Before Mrs. Fields was well-known, this legend was circulating around
- Jamie> about Neimann-Marcus (sp?). This obviously legendary tale doesn't
- Jamie> belong in emacs. (Many other files in the etc directory don't either,
- Jamie> but they're mostly innocous.
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- I agree completely. I have removed most of the propaganda from my etc and
- left only the file essential to running emacs and the COPYING and DISTRIB
- files. For instance, is ../etc/sex.6 really necessary?
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- My $0.02.
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