Well, you've dropped the annoying Mandelbrot quote, but you're still trying
to stir up trouble on my favorite mailing list.
In a message dated 6/5/99 10:27:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Are you sure of that? What if the bug didn't happen to strike my run, or the
> errors could be corrected?
Evidently you haven't been monitoring the list. The version 18 software was
DESIGNED, immediately after the bug was found, to determine whether any given
run contained corrupt data. Errors mounted with each and every iteration,
making "correction" impossible and worthless anyway.
>
> If what you say is true, then whoever designed version 17 acted in a
> completely unconscionably rash manner by releasing it without thoroughly
> testing it for problems as serious as that. And has therefore shot the
whole
> GIMPS effort in the foot by setting it back many weeks.
More inflammatory statements showing your non-monitoring of the mailing list.
George made COPIOUS apologies REPEATEDLY when the bug was found. If you
think his behavior is unconsionable, you are welcome to withdraw from the
project. Remember that 100% of this effort is volunteer.
>
> Hopefully, realization of the impact on GIMPS is punishment enough to make
> sure this won't happen again...
>
Hopefully, you'll get a clue and stop being so insulting. I don't hold out a
whole lot of hope though.
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