Why not allow empty code blocks?

Wed Aug 3 16:40:34 EDT 2016

On 2016年8月03日 14:06:06 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016年08月03日, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The first nokia I used never crashed but could still run out of battery
>> And the round-dial landlines of 30 years ago had not even that problem
>> Yes, technically, it did. Except the batteries were kept elsewhere,
> and the telco went to a lot of trouble to make sure they never went
> dead.

but the equipment at the exchange could miss a pulse & connect you to an 
incorrect number - equivalent of a bug?
before that, you had to ask the nice young lady at the local exchange to 
physically patch you in to the correct circuit (& she could make an error 
as well)
the "original" phones had no such problem as they ware simply a direct 
point to point connection (Bells first call is documented "come here 
Watson I need you" although no-one* remembers what Elisha Grey said or to 
whom).
*ok I suppose someone might but it is not common knowledge (& I bet we 
still get some pedant disputing this ;-) ) 
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