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Well, the fact is that they were written by me some years ago, after lot of thinking, but with an eye to a certain "perfect" notification system, rather than to solve the simple problem. Then the later modifications made them better but kept the same goal.
Now this is clear, because *no* feature that the system makes available has ever been used. Everyone, please witness this: if you do more than is necessary beforehand, most probably it will be *never* used.
XP calls it YAGNI : http://xp.c2.com/YouArentGonnaNeedIt.html
Sylvain
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