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> 
> Well, I don't see the problem.
> 
> My math says that that's .03% collision rate, which is so deep in the
> noise as to be practically zero.  What do you _think_ it should be?
> 
Even Mr. Inventor of the ethernet himself regrets calling them collisions because
that term has a bad ring people unfamiliar with the technological detail.

Pete