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[Clive D.W. Feather]

Ade Lovett said:
>>> Agent uses it to recover missing articles on servers that
>>> add them out of order.
>> Not permitted in our standard.
> I'm assuming that that was a typo for 'the standard', being the short form
> for 'the standard, according to <insert cite here>'.

It was a fast way of typing 'the document we are now writing does not
permit a server to add articles out of order'.

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