Ungodly packet loss rates

Avi Freedman freedman at netaxs.com
Tue Oct 22 15:21:38 UTC 1996


> 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






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