RE: POLL: A question of rhetoric (not a rhetorical question)

["Cadorette Johanne" <johanne -dot- cadorette -at- locusdialog -dot- com>]

Naturally, Kevin, there is a difference between a warning not to do
something which could cause irreparable damage ("do not restart the
system") and an instruction which can easily be given without using the
negative. The original sentences submitted by Roy Jacobsen were:

-"You can assign at item to only one group"
-"You can't assign an item to more than one group"

If I were writing a procedure to defuse a bomb, as you say, I would NOT
hesitate to use "do not." 

Johanne Cadorette

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