Communication, as the atomic element of networking, requires both transmission and receipt to be said to have happened. Speech is transmission. Reach is landi

Communication, as the atomic element of networking, requires both transmission and receipt to be said to have happened. Speech is transmission. Reach is landing at a receiver. Substituting /dev/null in place of a human being does not satisfy speech having occurred. A concordance must be reached between the speaker and at least one other individual.