Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!umigw!mthvax!wb8foz From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher,,255RTFM,255rtfm) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Maggie resigns !!! Message-ID: <1990Nov24.211143.26651@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Date: 24 Nov 90 21:11:43 GMT References: <5174@tardis.cs.ed.ac.uk> <1990Nov21.103616.10454@tsa.co.uk> <2374@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> <966@iiasa.UUCP> Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Distribution: na Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers Lines: 17 >What does this have to do >with comp.dcom.modems? Well, let's see. All the iron in the Iron Lady disturbs the Earth magnetic field. Thus, aircraft are forced into using satellite navagation systems more often. These, in turn, disrupt the twisted pair shielding in telephone cabling nearby, and lowers thruput on most news feeds. See, I knew there was some connection.... ;-} -- A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu & no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335