If you replace "does" with "does not" in (A) I'd agree ;-)

Matthew

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> Subject: Re: CQL Profiling Proposal
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> > Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:43:14 -0400
> > From: "Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress" <[log in to unmask]>
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> > > Heavens to betsy!  A four-message thread and I can't find a single
> > > statement to disagree with!  What on earth is the world coming to?
> >
> > Could you summarize then, because I didn't follow it.
> 
> I'm sure Matthew or Rob will shout if I misunderstood their dialogue,
> but I took it to mean that (A) the mechanism described by the proposal
> does explicitly offer CQL profilers the wherewithal to invent
> completely new attribute types, and quite right too; but (B) if
> profilers really, really want to, then the mechanism is sufficiently
> flexible to make it possible for them to cheat (and quite right too).
> 
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