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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:25:32 -0700
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
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Subject: [Kinda-OT] Reinventing wheels [was: 2.4.9-ac16 good perfomer?]
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:20:37PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> As usual, thanks go out to Matt Dillon for finding
> this balancing point.
> 
> I guess it really is time to stop reinventing the wheel ;)
> 

I've read the archived thread between you and Matt, and he mentioned that
what he described was about three years old.

What did they do before that?