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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.admin
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
Message-ID: <1991May21.172835.9816@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 21 May 91 17:28:35 GMT
References: <1991May19.133104.11572@balkan.TNT.COM> <1991May20.033655.5269@xenitec.on.ca> <1991May21.002214.5493@crom2.uucp>
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In article <1991May21.002214.5493@crom2.uucp> jim@crom2.uucp (James P. H. Fuller) writes:
]>You have 900 blocking in place on your _modem_ lines??
]
]     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....)  
]
	Scuse me, you have a system at home capable of running UNIX,
	at least one VCR, cable, and you can't afford $20 per month
	for a dedicated uucp fone line?  Also, your kids can't be trusted
	not to call 900 numbers, but they are intelligent enough not to
	pick up the fone while you are uploading this drivel?
	Yeah.  Right.

-- 
Randy Suess
randy@chinet.chi.il.us