> > 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.

HI.
Point taken, Sorry.

> The poster was French :-) - to them 
> the word "demand" was a clear english version of 'demande' = ask.

He he :-)
It's like when George W Bush said that :

"The French can't do anything, they don't even have
a *word* for "entrepreneur" !!"

:-)

Regards,
Jan-Erik.



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