Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!edsews!uunet!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PORTAL
Summary: dialing with uucp ain't the same as doing it by hand; it probably
	 goes through more often at 4 AM, too; plus, a major flaw
Message-ID: <3399@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 7 Feb 89 00:39:41 GMT
References: <11300005@hpfclr.HP.COM> <10935@gryphon.COM> <14314@cup.portal.com> <12300@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <14314@cup.portal.com>, Schizoid@cup.portal.com 
(FRED APPLE BONHOTAL) writes:
> > It's inaccessible.  Ever try to actually get INTO that site?  It ain't easy.
 
In article <12300@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>, jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US 
(John F. Haugh II) writes:
> Bullshit.  I get in numerous times every day.

> % who /etc/wtmp | grep killer | wc -l
>      22

> Twenty-two since 4am.  Did you try dialing a second time?

?????  Is it not true that the above statement counts the number
of times killer called you, not the number of times you called killer?
So it's irrelevant, and unfair to use against 'Schizoid,' right?

Even beyond that, robodialing constantly with uucp isn't the same as doing it 
by hand -- you don't care when it doesn't get through because you're at work
or asleep or something, whereas the hand-dialer has to sit and wait for it.  
Further, no doubt it's easier to get in at 4 AM than during prime time.

Are you into Amigas now, John, grepping news for portal postings, or what? :-)
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