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In article <875@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <541@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> cdsm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Chris Moss) writes:
>>In future I will send a note to everyone who's[sic] contribution may
>>appear in the column. If I get a reply in reasonable time disagreeing
>>with the inclusion of their contribution I won't print it. If they
>>want to make changes then I'll try and oblige.
 

>Fine with me, provided it is amended to "If I get a reply _agreeing_ with
>the inclusion of their contribution I _will_ print it".  [I'll be off the
>net for a while, so I hereby give Chris Moss permission to quote any of
>my postings without asking me until my first posting next year.]

The reason I framed it negatively was to cover the case of not getting
a reply. Unfortunately if I delete my original statement and use
Richard's version then negation as failure gives the wrong answer.

Reply		My proposal		Richard's proposal

agrees		publish			publish
no reply	publish			? presumably not
disagree	not publish		not publish

OK Richard, I'll ADD your statement to mine!

Chris Moss.