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   Gene Wirchenko to esquel@sommarskog.se   
   Re: Finding Local SSE2008 Instances   
   07 May 12 10:50:20   
   
   From: genew@ocis.net   
      
   On Sat, 05 May 2012 00:09:59 +0200, Erland Sommarskog   
    wrote:   
      
   >Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes:   
   >>      What does "" et al actually do?  It appears   
   >> to be a no-op.   
   >   
   >Dunno. Never use it. I always type in the name of the server I want to   
   >connect to.   
      
        Ha, ha!  That was *not* the answer I was expecting from you!   
      
        I have been wondering what I have been missing about it.   
      
        The form is a violation of the Law of Least Astonishment.  It   
   does not appear, at first glance, that one can type in one's own   
   choice.  Now that I know, it is not such a deal.   
      
        Do you know how to remove a choice from the list?  I once had   
   some bogus entries get added, and I wanted to get rid of them.   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Gene Wirchenko   
      
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