Hi folks,
Many many happy moons ago, in the 1980's, when we started using simplistic networking systems :
The phraseology for a long time was that you DOWN-loaded files, if from your machine to others, and UP-loaded files sent or sourced from others to your machine.
It seems now that everything is DOWN-loaded, regardless of data transmission direction.
What happened to the reverse, so that you immediatly knew which way things were going ?
Do we suspect Bill Gates & his merry men, again ?
Keep it simple with "sent", or "received"
Fair play I suppose - onwards and side-ways.
Or Im I just being a bit "old-hat"?
A packet switch, for bulk transfers still needs to know, such as I fiddle with for "The Military", needs to know the flow.
They get confused if you are smimming upsteam.
Just a Sunday thought, and all yours on this gratefully up-loaded.
Bob,
Down-loading.
2007-02-11
04:34:26
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