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In lugnet.org.us, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> I'd say
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> "NELUG may find that their policy may be detrimental in the long run"
> is a comment,
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> "NELUG are very wrong to not immediately change their policy"
> is shading over to a chide, and
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> "NELUG MUST change their policy immediately"
> is rather a demand, wouldn't you say?
I would. But I wasn't really getting at a technical definition issue. From
the perspective of posting to a newsgroup they're all functionally the same.
They're just various opinions and regardless of how they're phrased, the NELUG
readers will either ignore them or consider them as comments. For a demand to
be truely inappropriate, it has to be backed by some kind of force.
Chris
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| (...) Oh, you mean like "let's all join NELUG even though we have no interest in it and don't live anywhere near the US NE, so that we can disrupt the consensus the membership arrived at and change things to suit our opinions of how things ought to (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| (...) Well, there's rather less between comment and chide than there is between comment and demand, I guess. I'd say "NELUG may find that their policy may be detrimental in the long run" is a comment, "NELUG are very wrong to not immediately change (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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