_or not_ = _otherwise_?

[Wilson Gray]

It's a first for me.. Mybe it'll die out before it can spread.

-Wilson

On 8/21/06, Chris F Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
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> Very sorry about that.
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> 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:
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>  > Please do not 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
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>
> Is initial _or not_ for _otherwise_ common? It's not easy to search for.
>
> Chris Waigl
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