"Dave CROCKER" <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
>On 6/2/2010 8:08 AM, Al Iverson wrote:
>> Agree. "Discard" and "silently discard" mean the same thing, in my
>> opinion. Though, I am guilty of using the phrase "silently discard."
>> Maybe in an attempt to be slightly over-specific.
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>
>I do not recall seeing a dictionary or technical definition of "discard" that 
>says anything at all about whether the discarder says anything at all.
>
>Taken on its own and without further technical specifications 'discard' does 
>not 
>direct, imply or request that the action be silent or noisy, and if noisy who 
>gets to hear it.

IIRC, this is by design since there was no consensus around what exactly to do. 
 Personally, I tend to favor not having messages silently vanish.

Scott K
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