Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > USians like to ask "how're you doing?" or "whasup bro!", not actually > expecting you to answer truthfully (try it, it confuses them to no > end ;)
Well, it depends. It is a polite thing to ask someone you know, but not necessarily well. Sometimes if you know someone well you're actually expecting an answer, more often the correct protocol response to "how are you?" is "fine, how are you?" It is sort of like TCP: SYN -> SYN ACK -> ACK Apparently at one time in the distant past, the polite classes would say "how do you do?" when introduced to someone for the first time, but in that instance no answer at all was expected, which I find rather odder. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
