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A comment on Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50-year run. Parent comment

Re:Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50... by dTal on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:23PM (#21128015)
Er, no - verbal confirmation of delivery, in the event it succeeds, is not better than guaranteed delivery; it is strictly worse. If the message gets dropped you have no way of knowing - you might be waiting forever.
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Re:Japanese pagers to issue last beeps on Tuesday, ending 50... by reaperducer on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @02:00PM (#21128575)
Er, no - Nobody waits forever. People are not computers stuck in a for loop waiting for input.

If a response isn't received in an expected amount of time, then the sender takes the appropriate action.

People are far better at dealing with faults than any automated mechanism.

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