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From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
Subject: Re: ftp welcome message in 2.4 ftp directory?
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At 05:20 AM 11/26/01, you wrote:

>And for those who don't bothering reading the little bit if message that 
>scrolls across their screens when they log in?
>
>Point being, we could go on and on about trying to warn people. The emails 
>will still come.

And the response would be "See the Welcome Message in the FTP directory" or 
"See the notice on the home page" (assuming the suggestion of having a 
hotlink on www.kernel.org point to a "necessary patch" page).

Yes, the emails will still come, but after a while people will catch on and 
the quantity of such emails will lessen.

David

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