Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?"):
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 08:11:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > The reactions of others is not about the spelling difference, which is
> > obviously trivial.  It's about the refusal to change, the insistence on
> > mislabeling something, and the surprising anger and oddly twisted defenses
> > that ensue afterwards, making it clear that this is a marker of something
> > much deeper and much darker than just a trivial mistake.
> 
> So... a shibboleth. ;)

Maybe the list software could be configured to use this helpful marker
inexplicably placed on useless and inflammatory messages by their very
authors.

Ian.

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