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"options ..." line underdocumented

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Message #22 received at 8973-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com>
Cc: 8973-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: "options ..." line underdocumented
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:12:26 +0200

Dave Abrahams <dave <at> boostpro.com> writes:

> Well you could explain something to that effect in the documentation, to
> forestall questions like this one and the feeling among readers that
> they're swimming in some vague half-understood reality that isn't quite
> accessible to them (even if they are ;->).

I've now added a sentence that things are as simple as they seem.

> So, you could document that fact.  Does the pattern need to match at the
> beginning of the newsgroup name (document that too)?

Yes.

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