PE> There is nothing I can do about any of those things,
PE> as they are all likely to be at your end.

RS> By far the most likely explanation is that you are seeing
RS> a wart in your current modem or the mode its used in.
RS> That sentence at the top is about the LEAST likely.

PE> A modem bug is the LEAST likely thing to be wrong.

Fraid not, the most likely actually. In my case particularly, its
extremely unlikely that its 'at my end' when that particular effect
has only been seen since you enabled fax recognition on your modem.

PE> Something like an EC bug is far more likely to be consistent than random.

You clearly know sweet fuck all about what hardware is about, particularly
in that situation where the modems negotiate the session initially.

Even you should have noticed that when Bills Courier clearly
had a problem which was rather obvious even to you that it was an
interaction problem between a particular pair of modems in a particular
set of session conditions, that it wasnt anything like consistent.

Neither was the rather uncommon occurrence of the
problem I got between your Spirit and my Supra, thats
never been seen at all with other than your Spirit.

The only way to prove it in this situation is to run say with alternating
weeks of fax enabled and disabled for a year or so and see if there is any
obvious pattern in that particular symptom being seen only when fax is enabled.

And clearly its just not worth the trouble when the wart is so rare.
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