Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!nuchat!paul From: paul@nuchat.UUCP (Paul Hutmacher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Modem Woes/Odyssey...The Compleat Apventure Message-ID: <26648@nuchat.UUCP> Date: 25 Jul 90 22:04:47 GMT References: Reply-To: paul@nuchat.UUCP (Paul Hutmacher) Organization: Houston Public Access Lines: 16 In article lius@topaz.rutgers.edu (L*I*U Publishing Co.) writes: >I must ask: are ordinary surge supressors for phone lines adequate >for protecting against lightning? I've had two modems trashed from errant lightning storms and both have had medium priced phone and power line surge supressors on them. It didn't seem to help all that much. I figure lightning is going to do what it wants to most of the time anyway. My solution is to keep my homeowners policy paid up and pursue it that way. -- Paul Hutmacher | paul@nuchat.UUCP |Sometimes the only thing a P.O. Box 66046 | {texbell, uunet}!nuchat!paul |western savage understands Houston, TX 77266| paul%nuchat.uucp@uhnix1.uh.edu|are whiskey and rifles and 713/526-0612 CDT | Smile, you're on usenet. |an unarmed man like you.