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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 05:48:31 CDT


In <ylbsx0guu2.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

>I want it to mean the same thing as "never" unless there's some reason for
>the poster to believe differently, such as the prevailing culture of the
>newsgroup. That means it won't be strong enough to beat people over the
>head with, but I think that's forced by the fact that it's not that simple
>of a situation.

That sounds like a vote for SHOULD to me. The poster overrides if he
understands the culture of the group well enough to do so.

My own view is it should be weaker than SHOULD, but I am listening.

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