Re: (PM) ether0 not responding... (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sat, 22 Nov 1997 01:42:04 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Wayne Bouchard shaped the electrons to say...
>broadcast is a holdover from pre 4.2BSD networking. I still don't
>understand why Livingston defaults to low broadcast when its getting
>extroardinarily hard to find devices on the net that must use this
>convention.

The principle of least astonishment.

You don't change long standing defaults if it can be at all avoided,
because you WILL mess up people who have gotten so used to them it is
unconcious. Since we don't get complaints about it there is no justification
to changing what has been historic behavior.

-MZ

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