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Re: Must and should: new proposal (was: Re: Must and should again)



On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:03:49PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>  Julian> - there's no longer a suggestion of using policy as anything other
>  Julian>   than a set of guidelines
> 
> 	Is that really the case? I certainly do not find that I treat
>  Policy as a guideline, to be followed or violated at my whimsy; I do
>  think of it as a set of rules, and as all rules, there may be
>  exceptions.  I would hesitate to declare such an exception myself,
>  though, and I'd ask for a ruling on an exception to policy rather than
>  deciding that on my own. 

I sure do agree with you, but Aj doesn't seem to think so ;-)  <-- flame bait

   Julian

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