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<tt>A colleague of mine - based in Toronto, no idea about his status as
a native speaker or not, but I would suppose it likely - just sent
around the following warning about storage space running low on a
particular server farm. He finished thus:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><font color="#003300" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Please <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">do not</span></b> trigger any new [company
name] large import before above storage expansion is done; or not, it
can run out storage and bring the farm down</span></font></blockquote>
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</tt><tt>Is initial _or not_ for _otherwise_ common? It's not easy to
search for.<br>
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</tt><tt>Chris Waigl<br>
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