Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: jwb@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Best and Worst (was: Labor Day, 1990) Message-ID: <12221@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 14 Sep 90 00:09:48 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Monash_University Lines: 37 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 651, Message 5 of 9 In article <12064@accuvax.nwu.edu>, jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) writes in support of comments by John Higdon disagreeing with my vote: > >> > In the best/worst voting, my opinions (based on experience) are: > >> > BEST: Japan > >> Bzzzzt! Wrong -- but thanks for playing anyway. > >> * About one out of ten calls bomb (don't go through). > >Not on my observation. > I would say it may even be higher. ...... [etc.etc.etc.] At this point I crawl back under my stone. I could try and argue point by point, but anecdotal "evidence" isn't worth much anyway. I suppose I will just have to accept that I lead a charmed existence when in Japan, whilst in the US I just happen to get more than my share of lousy lines, rude operators, failed connections, international lines with broken eco-suppression, etc. etc. > >Jim Breen ($B%8%`(J) > Ahh, but he has Japanese in his .signature. That increases his > qualifications a bit. $B$"$"!"F|K\8l$,>e