helping the user is not an error

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From: David Cantrell
Subject: helping the user is not an error
Date: 11:59 on 23 May 2006

When the user asks for help, giving that help is not an error.  So
please use STDOUT and not STDERR.  It makes it so much easier to
redirect your overly verbose spew into less(1).

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helping the user is not an error David Cantrell 11:59 on 23 May 2006
- Re: helping the user is not an error Peter da Silva 12:24 on 23 May 2006
  - too deep to show
- Chris Devers 13:44 on 23 May 2006
  - too deep to show
Peter da Silva 13:01 on 24 May 2006
- H.Merijn Brand 14:26 on 24 May 2006

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