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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: Starhub -- one alternative to Stargate
Message-ID: <2397@phri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jul-86 10:05:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 22 10:05:40 1986
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Summary: We bought 2400 for home dialup, not news
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In article <6970@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> Although this isn't something I'm sure of, I would guess that the vast
> majority of the 2400-baud modems on the net were bought to help keep
> news under control, not because the dialup community was clamoring for them.

	I don't know about the net as a group any more than Henry does (in
fact, probably a good deal less than Henry does) but around here we bought
2400 baud modems so people could run emacs (and rogue :-)) at home and not
have to take a coffee break everytime they redraw the screen.  As a matter
of fact, most of our uucp neighbors don't even talk 2400.  Of course, 99%
of our news travels via local phone calls -- that's hardly the case in most
places.

	BTW, we've had enough trouble with 2400 baud modems over
unconditioned lines, that I'm not sure I'm ready to believe the claims the
4800/9600 baud people are making.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016