At 17:12 -0700 9/28/1999, Rick McGowan wrote:
[snip]
>...don't design protocols like "login: " and expect them to scale
>appropriately. This is precisely the same problem that people with
>walkie-talkies used to fix by using phrases like "over" and
>"over-and-out".
>
> Rick
This nit is often picked: "Over" means, "I'm waiting for you to
talk", while "Out" means end-of-session. So "Over and out" would be
self-contradictory.
-- Edward Cherlin edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu "It isn't what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you know that ain't so."--Mark Twain, or else some other prominent 19th century humorist and wit
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