Re: Niggles in usepro-draft-11

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <8BCC8FD2-6FEB-44E2-A904-5E88E94F5EFE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thorfinn <thorfinn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>On 26 Sep 2008, at 05:06, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> "The same" to me includes the possibility of "none."



>"the same checks" does definitely have a small difference in  
>implication to "whatever checks".  "the same checks" has a slightly  
>stronger implication that there is at least one check.  It's not a  
>hugely stronger implication, no.  And it is just in implication,  
>rather than in explicit meaning.

Yes, that is essentially the point I was trying to make. Or Julien's "if
any" would do as well.

>However, I think that that is not a bad implication to have, and you  
>are certainly correct that "the same" includes the possibility of  
>"none".

Indeed, but if you want to drop more/stronger hints that checks on cancel
messages are a Good Thing, then the text(s) discussing cancel messages is
the place to do it (but we already say as much as we reasonably can
there).

>Certainly implementors of news software (the target audience for this)  
>should already understand that possibility. :-)

Implementors "should" do lots of things :-( .

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