Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Yossi (Joel" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Discounts For Deaf: My Solution Message-ID: <8782@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 5 Jun 90 16:33:46 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: "Yossi (Joel" Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. Tech., Haifa Israel Lines: 34 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 420, Message 7 of 13 In article <8564@accuvax.nwu.edu> telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 408, Message 1 of 4 >My suggestion is that the discounts should continue, for perhaps a >maximum period of another eighteen months -- say, until January 1, >1992. During the interim period, an effort would be made to convert as >many TDD users as possible over to high speed modems and 'BBS like' >software, so that for all practical purposes they could participate in >the world with the rest of us. I'd even go so far as to say the money >Then following the cut off date, no more discounts for slowness ... or >maybe, a much smaller discount at present, which would go on for a few >more months of the coversion, then a final end to it. I have to point out that the problem is >NOT< the baud rate of TDD's. Most people don't type 60 WPM anyway. The problem is the medium itself. It simply takes longer to type what you want to say than to speak it. Information normally encoded by intonation and stress, for example, have to be spelled out. Consider how many conventions we use on the net: :-) *sigh* :-( >EMPHASIS< and how much longer it takes us to type them that it would to utter them. Written communication is never as fast as spoken communication, and so if the discount is designed to compensate for slowness, moving to 1200 WPM machines is irrelevent. Joel p.s. This is not to say that moving to better TDD's is not a great idea, just that the original reasons for the discount still apply.