They might do, we should test for that.

These stories of gnat-brings-down-empire are, to me, always missing the point. There are going to be bugs. The hard part is in creating management around the actual software engineering such that this is not a problem.

"Remote computer is not answering" What is the correct code then ? In case there is no exception.

That's right. But nobody puts their best code in a generic exception handler either.

That's an untested assumption :)

Speak for yourself.