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From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:33:29 +0930

> Yes.

Please don't use my posting as an opportunity to portray
BSD as the best thing since sliced bread.

We're having ONE bad merge window, we're facing the problem
head on, RIGHT NOW, to prevent it in the future.  It's
not a severe ongoing issue as you portray it to be.