XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Daniel,   
      
   > If I send you Data ...... and I hear nothing back. Do I assume you   
   > received my Data or do I just resend?? After a Minute?? An Hour?? A Day??   
      
   When you use TCP/IP you *always* hear something "back".   
      
   *When you successfully connected to the other puter* and you send a block of   
   data you either get a message from the other side that it received the data   
   block OK and you can send the next one, or a status from the your 'puters   
   TCP/IP driver that, *after it has automatically re-tried several times*,   
   something is wrong with the connection.   
      
   (notice the bolded parts)   
      
   So, when the down/upload fails and with me knowing that TCP/IP has already   
   done its damn best to send/receive the data, I give it plenty of time, as   
   something serious seems to be going wrong.    When I'm eager to have the   
   data sometimes just an hour, but at other times a day or even more.  Its a   
   bit of a "do I feel lucky" kind of situation.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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