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The recent query (actually, Avi's reply) re problems of "renumbering" pushes
me over the edge into an obsevation:  A large amount of the traffic on
ENDNOTE-L seems be from users who are using EndNote as a database manager,
and for whom the purpose for which it was designed, formatting in-text
citations and building style-sheet-correct bibliographies, is not much of a
concern.

I have a certain amount of sympathy for people trying to manage large reprint
files etc., and I have no problem w/ suggestions that EndNote, where it's
feasible (a very elastic word!), change to accomodate such needs.  But Niles
is NOT competing with NOTIS and record numbers are NOT serial numbers, even
if they look like them.

In sum, my sense of what I read on this list is EndNote is being used in new
ways; that's fine, and good, but also means that people posing "problems" to
Niles should start w/ some awareness that those whose develop new uses for an
application can't expect the designers of the application to have foreseen
all their needs!

Greg.Finnegan@Dartmouth.edu