Re: Programming in standard c

In article <13nh5stql8prb4c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gordon Burditt <gordonb.pohmw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On USENET, it takes at least a week to "go silent". It hasn't
been anywhere near that long. Some people have lives outside
of USENET. And article transmission is not instantaneous.
Messages "cross in the mail" all the time.

That's true in the theoretical, but not in the practical, sense.

Here, if Jacob posts something and heathfield doesn't post an attack
within the hour, it is probably a good idea to send an ambulance over to
heathfield's place.

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