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Once upon a time in the land of demon.ip.support.amiga,
Keith.Blakemore-Noble wrote:

> "Cannot rely on" means will not necessarily work.  Now, if you chose to use
> things knowing full well that they quite possibly/probably will not work,
> then fine.

> As in "I can build the house for you, but you cannot rely on to stay up".
> Or "You cannot rely on the fire extinguisher to work"
> Or "You can use the steering wheel, but you cannot rely on it actually
> turning the direction of the wheels".
> Or "You cannot rely on the fire detection equipment in the Chunnel".  Erm. 
> Maybe not such a good example...

> Etc.

> I.e. "Use it if you must, but don't come whinging to us when it doesn't
> work". :)

Unless I'm very much mistaken, we're posting news, not performing
brain-surgery. If I'm posting something /important/ I can make sure
it's 7-bit. This is rather petty at this level; if there was a server
which was confining data defined as seven-bit to six bits, or one
defined as eight-bit to seven bits, /then/ it would be more of a
problem.

I hope I'm correct in my belief that news is seven-bit and mail is
eight-bit. If this is not the case, then I'm going to have to be more
diligent in checking responses to my mails.

I ask this question: would you be prepared to send an important
document by post without checking that it had reached it's
destination?

Didn't think so.

Nyk
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