On 5/8/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
         2. MUST NOT (syn. MAY NOT, SHALL NOT, ILLEGAL, PROHIBITED)
            Attempts to perform the described action are successful,
            but violate the rules.

This definition is incorrect.

Prohibition does not imply possibility.  There is no *point* to
outlawing something impossible, but there is also no contradiction in
doing so.

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C. Maud Image (Michael Slone)
"my record has been stained"
               -- Andre, in agora-discussion

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