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Georg Nikodym <georgn@Canada.Sun.COM> writes:

> I'm just trying footnote.el and I'm very impressed.  The only thing
> that bothers me[1] is the demand on message mode.  As a VM user, I had
> never seen message mode until today.  Ignoring the merit of
> message-mode[2], I fail to see[3] any reason for the dependency[4].
> 
>  
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  A noted crank...
> 
> [2]  which is plenty neat.
> 
> [3]  perhaps from laziness.
> 
> [4]  it would be neat to have this in fundamental mode as well.


And I really, /really/ hope that this swamp of footnotes seen for some
time on this list will cool down a little after the initial excitement 
over footnote.el (No flame on you Steve[1]. It's *nice* to have it.)

Footnotes: 
 [1]  Or on anyone else, of course.

