Subj : human-readable nodelist format
To   : mark lewis
From : andrew clarke
Date : Wed Nov 06 2002 07:55 am

Tue 2002-11-05 14:45, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> Yes, "ignore", not "strip out".  ;-)  I was refering to
 ac>> nodelist parsing software ignoring new keywords it doesn't
 ac>> recognise (instead of failing).  Segment merging software
 ac>> shouldn't strip out anything unless it's been told to.

 > many understand "ignore" to mean completely and thus they ignore those 
 > items when copying or modifying and subsequently those items are 
 > ignored right out of the resultant processing...

 > methinks "ignored" is not the proper word to be used...

Yeah, probably not.  Like I said, I'm not a documentation writer.  I probably 
have wouldn't have used that word in the actual spec though.

You may hereby ignore my misuse of the word "ignore" for the remainder of this 
message!

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