On Friday, Aug 22, 2003, at 09:29 US/Eastern, Richard Braakman wrote:
I propose to use a word that won't be misspelled all over the place :) Even in this thread I've seen three counts of "supercede". I'd hate to add that to by daily dose of annoyances.
According to m-w.com, "supercede" is an accepted alternate spelling, so I'm not too worried about that one. Also, it is the standard term used for the procedure.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=replace gives what each (near) synonym of replace implies, and I think supersede is definitely the right word.
/me hopes this sub-thread does not grow, forcing the listmasters to create a new list, -anal.