> Second, I think that a subject that better says what it's
> all about would have been better.

I agree.
But -

> No one is in the position
> to "require" anything from the list, and doing that will probably
> just give you fewer replies anyway...

There *seems* to be a misunderstanding of the meaning of a word here.

"Require", in this context, is essentially interchangeable by (the 
vast majority of) people who use English as a first language, with 
words such as 'wanted', 'requested', 'desired' etc. For such people 
the word does not convey any sense of  'demand', 'insist' etc in this 
context.

The opposite confusion can also occur. On a prior occasion a poster 
used the word "demand". This was taken by someone (person O) to mean 
"insist" and a significant fire-fight occurred when person O demanded 
that nobody demand things of them. The poster was French :-) - to them 
the word "demand" was a clear english version of 'demande' = ask.


        Russell McMahon

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