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Subject: Re: The gmane issue
From: Norbert Bollow <nb @ cisto . com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:51:34 +0200
To: njs @ scifi . squawk . com
Cc: List-Managers @ greatcircle . com, rfc-discuss @ maillist . info
In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.2.20020821184545.28105830@127.0.0.1> (message from NickSimicich on Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:20:16 -0400)
Prefer-language: de, en, fr
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020819200112.1565c200@127.0.0.1><5.0.0.25.2.20020819123912.038caaf0@pop3.vo.cnchost.com><5.1.0.14.2.20020819200112.1565c200@127.0.0.1> <5.1.0.14.2.20020821184545.28105830@127.0.0.1>

Nick Simicich <njs@scifi.squawk.com> wrote:

> "then that" is not reasonable English, as there is no antecedent for that 
> in this case.  Maybe the antecedent would become apparent if there were 
> more context, but sentences in RFCs tend to get misinterpreted if they 
> can't stand on their own.

Thank you for pointing this out.  Fixed (hopefully! :-) by essentially
adopting your proposed language. 

The revised version is http://maillist.info/rfc-draft/draft0.03.txt

Greetings, Norbert.

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