ext_4752 ([identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] xiphias 2007-01-17 01:10 am (UTC)

Re: One of the Party Hosts

A communication failure happens because of two things: a message sent failure, or a message recieved failure.

You'll notice that I'm not the only one who received the message I received.

That means that, while a certain amount of the failure happened on my side, another amount happened on the "sending" side.

In general, in communications studies, we tend to consider a communications failure to usually have the larger portion of the failure happening on the "sender" side. In a typical communication failure, about 70% of the error happens on the sender side -- that's obviously an approximate number, because this isn't something that can be ACTUALLY measured.

Naturally, what I heard fit with my expectations. That's the way that things work, and that's part of the sender side -- what expectations have been set up.

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