for / while else doesn't make sense

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 5:39 AM, alister <alister.ware at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 12:43:35 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>
>>> On this list, I daresay somebody will insist that if their computer is
>>> on one of Jupiter's moons it will keep running fine and therefore I'm
>>> wrong.
>>>
>>
>> Anyone on a moon of Jupiter would not be able to get internet access
>> (TCP/IP time-outs mean that even Mars is outside of internet range. The
>> Moon at 1.3 light seconds might manage it ) so they could not be posting
>> here ;-)
>
> Well, TCP might be problematic, but radio transmission from Jupiter
> would still be faster than RFC 1149, which in its only field test took
> an average of 5200 seconds to send round-trip pings over a distance of
> 3 miles.

And I'm sure someone could figure out a "netnews-over-UDP" system.
After all, most people just post without thinking about responses
anyway, which is exactly what UDP is great at...

ChrisA