LA> PM>         I understand its often not the case, but it always
LA> PM>         surprises  me as to how many able bodied folks will pay
LA> PM>         money to connect two to four color-coded wires together
LA> PM>         to matching color-coded (or at least clearly lettered
LA> PM>         with the first letter of the  coded color) terminals.
LA> PM>         With an 8.00 "bell hangers" bit and a spool of wire and
LA> PM>         a stapler it shouldn't take more than an hour to wire-up
LA> PM>         most homes (less if one believes in crimp connectors).
LA>    Bite your tongue!!!  I have been at too many houses where the
LA>NOISY STATIC problem is caused by someone using crimp connectors.
LA>Scotch Lock (correct size for the gauge of wire) connectors are a
LA>different issue though.  A connection that is "shaky" can cause more
LA>problems than it it is worth by making things faster.
        This same argument can be made about all consumer wiring jobs.
        (how many houses burn yearly because of it).  (My NOISY STATIC
        problems have always been the connection(s) a foot or so off 
        the pole were the drop to the house is attached...except the
        day it got very quiet because we didn't have loop current 
        anymore because the last strand broke.)  I don't happen to 
        believe in crimp connectors myself (at least not for connections
        last should last decades).
LA>   But I do agree, TPC (The Phone Company...see The President's
LA>Analyst) charges way too much for something so simple to do.
        I have not seen that in years (never the whole thing...but
        I do remember the truck picking up the phone booth with the
        poor guy still inside)...good old TPC.  (Of course it is 
        still common to have 5+ dollars charged for someone to toggle
        a service code to enable a feature that the TPC switch could
        have given for free (it has to be supported in the switch to
        begin with)...and then charge for the setting being active
        on a monthly basis.  (Caller ID is a wonderful case of this.)
CMPQwk1.42 331þWhere does the data written to device NUL go?
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