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From: andrew@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Use of 'and' - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 24-Mar-84 05:49:00 EST
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inmet!andrew    Mar 23 13:54:00 1984

I haven't heard of that one, but there was an article recently (in
Datamation?) about a natural language processing system which
repeatedly gave no results when asked for "all customers in Ohio
and Indiana".  Of course, no customer can be in both states
at once; the question should have been phrased as ".. Ohio *or*
Indiana".  When this was pointed out, the person using the
program commented something to the effect of "Don't tell *me*
how to think!"