please make bug reports self-contained

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From: Richard Stallman
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1992 16:31

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Please, when you report a bug, make your message self-contained.
Don't refer to any previous messages from yourself or anyone else:
instead, literally copy *all* the information that a person would need
to investigate this particular bug.

This is because I cannot afford to save any message once I think I
have dealt with it.  I must throw away bug reports as soon as I think
I have acted on them.

If you send a message that is not self-contained, I will have to ask
you for the rest of the information.  That takes up my time, and slows
down my fixing of bugs.

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