From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,978f50245fc02645 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: Root of a GNAT problem (was: Gnat v3.05 bug or compilation problem Date: 1996/12/18 Message-ID: <32B7F606.794BDF32@escmail.orl.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 204730174 references: <58h301$gad@alfali.enst-bretagne.fr> <58h6n2$2hbi@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <1996Dec9.110039.1@eisner> <32AD89D1.16E0@bix.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Information Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Date: 1996-12-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Tom Moran wrote: > > >One courtesy ACT could provide to all would be an automated mail > >message saying "Internet Mail worked, and we received your bug > I just send the report again on those occasions when there's been no > response after a couple of days. Getting lost once in e-mail often > happens, but the probability of getting lost twice is low. Of course, once the first email is lost, the second is just as likely as any other transmission to be lost (perhaps more). %-) That reminds me of a scene from "The Life According to Garp" (Yes, yes. I *know* it was a book first. I watch way more movies than I read books.) Garp is shopping for houses, and an airplane crashes right into the house he is looking at. He agrees to purchase the property on the spot, reasoning that the odds of that happening *twice* are astronomical. Looking at the smoldering wreckage, he hugs his wife and tells her "We'll be safe here." -- T.E.D. | Work - mailto:dennison@escmail.orl.lmco.com | | Home - mailto:dennison@iag.net | | URL - http://www.iag.net/~dennison |