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From: jcb@loral.UUCP (Jay C. Bowden)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Direct modem line from USA to France?
Message-ID: <1815@loral.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 88 20:38:39 GMT
References: <297@amanue.UUCP> <7651@cup.portal.com> <7752@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: jcb@loral.UUCP (Jay C. Bowden)
Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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In article <7752@cup.portal.com> David@cup.portal.com writes:
>I know that there are a lot of trailblazers used to connect the USENET
>sites, and that's fine for them, just not fine for me, because I hate
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>tossing stuff in the trash in a year or two.
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This is going to sound critical, but that's OLD AGE THINKING!  You're 
swimmin' up stream, baby, and stifling the economy, too!

So maybe you can do without 19.2Kbps for a couple of years.  That's
fine, just wait, then.  But it's not the people that fight for a 
place at the back of the line that make innovation happen!

The trend is unarguably towards shorter product lifespans; look at
your car for example!  To me the key thing to look at here is why
we think of this as "bad".  I, for one, spend a fair amount of time
consciously trying to force myself out of this mindset.  Something
to consider, anyway.

>
>David@cup.portal.com
>David McCord
>415/424-5644

- Jay (with an attitude) Bowden