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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> > CONFIG_SOUND_YMPCI: arch/ppc/configs/power3_defconfig arch/arm/def-configs/footbridge arch/arm/def-configs/rpc arch/arm/def-configs/lart arch/arm/def-configs/shark
> 
> typo, that should be ...YMFPCI.
> 
> maybe you could add soundex to catch misspellings ;-)

Don't laugh.  I considered it -- only not with soundex but with 
Ratcliff/Obershelp gestalt similarity matching, which is better at
catching this sort of typo.  Python has a module for this; I could make
it happen with about two hours' work.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself 
a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about 
repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the 
great struggle for independence.
	-- Attributed to Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)
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