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From: pete@tcom.stc.co.UK.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: how to get a cleaner line maybe
Message-ID: <1281@bute.tcom.stc.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 15-May-87 05:08:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 15 05:08:44 1987
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In article <8705120212.AA03325@jade.berkeley.edu} SPGDCM@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
} Title:   MVS/Tandem Systems Manager  (415)642-5823
} Office:  Evans 257, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
} Subject: how to get a cleaner line maybe
}
} To: Telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu
}
} One strategy for getting a chance at a cleaner line would be to order an
} additional line; once installed, disconnect the poorer of the two. Of course
} this is expensive but it might be preferable to a lifetime of trying to
} get a bad line fixed.
}


        This is absolutely insane!!! Are you seriously suggesting
        that one should *reward* the telephone company for providing
        a rotten service by paying them for another line?

        And what if the new line is worse than the old one???

        I hope you have a good investment adviser!

        I think I missed the :-)
-- 
	Peter Kendell <pete@tcom.stc.co.uk>

	'Have you no idea of development, of progress?'
	'I have seen both in an egg. We call it Going Bad in Narnia.'