Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Dumb question: ping w/o icmp support?
Message-ID: <1988Oct31.215228.18443@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8810251528.AA04950@braden.isi.edu> <1988Oct27.164540.1545@utzoo.uucp> <3575@phri.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 88 21:52:28 GMT

In article <3575@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	Given that the quantity is bogosity, and the universe in which this
>quantity exists is the swamp, it seems that "the bog" is the obvious name for
>the unit of measure...

Best suggestion I've heard so far.  There have been a few truly interesting
ones by private mail, but the better ones are unprintable.  (Among the
also-rans are the "Berkeley", the "ATTIS", and the "Sun".)  The "Millstone"
is already spoken for, alas:  it's the unit of gateway throughput! :-)

>Next question; do we define a fixed goodness-to-badness
>continium with 1 bog being totaly bogus (thus, a 10 decibog box would be 90%
>in compliance with the specs) or do we define an open-ended scale, on the
>assumption that no matter how bad something is, somebody will always manage
>to come along with something worse?

"Decibog" sounds clumsy.  I'd propose that the main scale runs from 0 to 10
bog, with higher (and negative) ratings reserved for exceptional cases.
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