On Jan 15, 2007, at 3:14 AM, Ulrich Boche wrote:
Sorry, needed to repost because I only posted to the newsgroup.
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The magic reason for nearly everyone using a RACF revoke limit of 3 is
baseball and the way it is firmly rooted in the American way of life.
The rule is: "Three strikes and you're out", and what is good for
baseball must be good for security.
Baseball is virtually unknown in most other countries but due to the
overwhelming US influence on IT, especially in the earlier years, such
rules and recommendations were just taken as gospel everywhere.
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I used that but in a different way in the hospital early this year. I
am en extremely difficult person to draw blood from and I am not a
morning person (without coffee) .
At the god unearthly hour of 6AM a nurse tried to take blood from me.
I informed her I was an hard draw. She poked me once and of course
couldn't get any blood. I looked at her and told her: "You know the
saying 3 strikes and you are out" she looked at me and said I
understand and on the second try she still could not get blood. I
told her you have one last try and you are out of here. She said "OK"
and she got her 3rd try and I said good bye. She had to go to a
senior nurse to find someone that could get blood on the first try.
After the nurse got (finely) some blood they approached the doctor
and suggested I have a "PIK" line installed (long story omitted) but
from then on it was just like turning on a spigot.
Ed
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