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Hello Mark - 

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CA>> I sympathesize with their difficulties but this is not
CA>> something new and they could ask for help rather than
CA>> experiment and then insist their setup is correct and _my_
CA>> setup needs fixing. :-\ 

ml> know that feeling... 

Many do know but surprisingly many do not know. Newbies assume
it's their fault and it never occurs to them the ISP is fubar'd. 

CA>> I've been online now longer than some of them are years
CA>> old and they think they can tell _me_ how this should be
CA>> done. 

ml> and that one, too! > 

It's difficult to hear these little kid voices sounding so
confident when they have no idea what they are talking about. 

CA>>>> I don't have the USR BBS number but they were sold to
CA>>>> 3COM, you might want to try a search on '3COM'? 

ml>>> 3COM let them go back on their own... they are USR once
ml>>> again ((GG)) 

ml>>> http://www.usr.com 

CA>> I recall 3COM immediately announced they thought there was
CA>> no future in selling modems anymore which made me wonder
CA>> why they bought out USR if that was their opinion. 

ml> to "assist" in shutting down the dialup market and get
ml> everyone to move to broadband stuff... 

That was the sentiment in the echo at the time - that 3COM
wanted to kill the dialup markets. 

CA>>>> This is all I could find that might be of interest to
CA>>>> you? 

ml>>> yes and no... doesn't do me any good to try to test over
ml>>> the current internet link as it is only connecting at
ml>>> 28k8 or so and not climbing higher like can be done... my
ml>>> telco has fubar'd my lines... i'm positive of it... i
ml>>> just have to get on their arses about it and get them to
ml>>> do something about it... 

CA>> I would consider having a second line added then forcing
CA>> them to get that one working properly. After a week or two
CA>> of testing I would then tell them to kill the first line.
CA>> :-) 

ml> hehehe, i've 4 physical lines in here now! at one time in
ml> the last (very) few years, had 9 (!) phone numbers... some
ml> were landline, others were cell... and then there were the
ml> remote call forwarding ones that forwarded to the main bbs
ml> numbers... kinda like a TIE line from the "old days" but
ml> much less expensive... before that, i was running 10+
ml> landlines plus the additional numbers... can't say that i
ml> want it back but then again... 

Sounds like an expensive BBS sysop 'thing' to me. :-) 

There was some sort of telephone setup that began with a 'C' that
could use a single line as 6 dif phone lines but I forget what it
was called. I only had three lines myself. :-\

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