On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Michael Haardt wrote:

> Evidence is a hard word.  When I asked about making this patch initially,
> all I heard is: You don't need it, queue runs are not synchronised and
> there is nothing a random interval could do any better than the randomness
> introduced by life.  Go fix your system.  So obviously nobody answering
> ever checked the intervals really.

I fully understand that, and I see *your* need for the facility and I'm
prepared to put it in. Just not as the default.

> Are you willing to bet that somebody would still like to get the old
> behaviour back?

I am not a betting person, but I would not be surprised if there wasn't 
somebody who wanted predictability. In fact, *I* do, for testing. :-)

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