Text written by Mark Delany at 09:46 AM 3/25/99 -0800:
>> Ya know.... I just got back from a new consulting job. This place paid
>> someone several hundred dollars to install qmail and the person never
> ^^^^^^^
>> did get it working -- after several WEEKs of work. I'm sure you'll be
>
>Someone got a consultant to work for "several WEEKS" for 200 lousy bucks?
Probably more than 200 -- "several" is more than "a couple" (and even more
than "a few" -- the person may have made off with more than US$1000...).
Just a minor nit-pick. :)
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Kai MacTane
System Administrator
Online Partners.com, Inc.
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>From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
drop on the floor /vt./
To react to an error condition by silently discarding messages or
other valuable data. "The gateway ran out of memory, so it just
started dropping packets on the floor." Also frequently used of
faulty mail and netnews relay sites that lose messages.
