Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Discounts For Deaf: My Solution Message-ID: <8813@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 8 Jun 90 16:19:57 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 26 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 422, Message 7 of 8 "Yossi (Joel" writes: > I have to point out that the problem is >NOT< the baud rate of TDD's. > 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. Yes, but consider something else that goes on on the net -- batched, high-speed data transfer. I understand that there is frequent need for interactive "conversation", but a lot of the time someone just needs to send a message and may or may not even need a reply. When you or I sit down to spill our guts on this forum, or reply to those who privately take issue with us, we sit down and type at our leisure. Maybe we get up to have lunch, do other work, whatever. None of this time is spent "on line". Perhaps equipment for the deaf can be designed so that it offers the option of interactive OR e-mail-style communications. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !