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From: jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller)
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Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
Message-ID: <1991May21.002214.5493@crom2.uucp>
Date: 21 May 91 00:22:14 GMT
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eah@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew happily using ksh) writes:

> > > UUnet is always there. And they have 1-900 numbers.
> >
> > And some of us, due to children or other excuses, have to have 900
> > blocking in place.

>Oh, I can't resist this....
>
>You have 900 blocking in place on your _modem_ lines??


     Ahhh, he read _Newsweek_ and when they said "there's no such thing as
home computers, they all bought C64s and put them in the closet" he *believed*!
Aren't dimwits fun?  The things they say!
     
     For you guys who have peu d'imagination (note Francais, courtesy for
Canadian customers) it happens that there are VERY MANY systems active on the
net that borrow the household VOICE LINE to pick up the news and mail.  Hey,
and some of us even manage to reproduce!  SOME of us even know more about
the VCR than the kids do and can lock out MTV and *keep* it locked out.  But
it still takes money to get in an extra modem-only line.  ("I can't resist
this": those who don't know the above obviously don't *have* a machine in their
short-forehead Neanderthal caves, I mean homes....)  

     Crom has its own line right now (whoopee) but n'etais pas always vrai.

 
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