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On Thu, 26 Aug 1993 22:49:10 -0400, kyle@crystal.WonderWorks.com (Kyle Jones) said:

 > Other than that I've had no problems with 5.35.  I had a problem
 > related to an earlier post with vm 4.41/19.19, it would completely
 > hang my emacs process if the "To" field had too many names in it...
 > This caused me to upgrade.

Probably due to the poorly thought out POSIX requirements for maximal
regexp matching, and the suboptimal current GNU implementation (to be
fixed soon by switching to the "rx" regex package).

Kyle> I don't know who is being more irresponsible, the FSF for
Kyle> encouraging unprepeared people to use their buggy code or me for
Kyle> fixing VM so that it will run under it!

The FSF doesn't hide the fact that Emacs 19 is a beta test version,
not claimed to be stable.  With something as big and susceptable to
portability problems as Emacs, you need to have a lot of testers.
Unlike Microsoft, the FSF can't afford to pay thousands of testers, so
they get volunteers from the public.

Recent versions of Emacs 19 haven't given *me* much trouble;
they've been working quite well for what I do.