I read in !emc-pstc that Rich Nute <ri...@sdd.hp.com> wrote (in
<200111130122.raa03...@epgc196.sdd.hp.com>) about '[Fwd: User Warning
Signal Words]', on Mon, 12 Nov 2001:

>I feel the authors of these definitions neither consulted
>a dictionary nor the users of warnings.  

I'm sure that you are right, but what is the alternative to using
existing words but with special definitions that make their meanings
more precise? If you solve this one, you clear up a significant problem
in standards-writing.
-- 
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk 
Eat mink and be dreary!

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