[5595] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ungodly packet loss rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Oct 22 11:24:38 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: oberman@es.net (Kevin Oberman)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:21:38 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: GAVRON@ACES.COM, jbash@velvet.com, mrbill@texas.net, emv@simtel.coast.net,
nanog@merit.net, oberman@es.net
In-Reply-To: <9610221506.AA07010@ptavv.es.net> from "Kevin Oberman" at Oct 22, 96 08:06:42 am
> Ehud,
>
> Go back to English class. "It's" is a contraction of either "it is" or
> "it has". "Its" is the third person possessive. The referenced
> sentence uses "it's" as a contraction of "it has" and is correctly
> spelled in the message.
>
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
I generally try not to pick on people for English flaws unless they're
repeated (and frequent)...
But anyway, if Ehud's native language is Hebrew, the difficulty may be
that Hebrew doesn't really have a present tense form of the verb 'to be'.
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Avi
