Hello there Paul ....



BG>>> That's your opinion Paul, but I know several BBS operators

BG>>> (running Couriers) who would disagree with you.



PE>> The ones that haven't done adequate testing.



RL>> That is the point here. The bloody things don't need testing.

RL>> If you spent less time fucking around with your infamous bug tests

RL>> and got onto



 PE> That was documenting how the modem behaved at the defaults,

 PE> with a wide variety of incoming modems, with possibly dubious

                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^



Valid point, but the actual point where you come unstuck. How can you,

at your end, take into account all the variables from each caller.



 PE> lines. If real-world testing frightens you, that's your problem.



The "real world" frightens me, but I'm buggered if your
"testing" is going

to fix that. And I'm happy to say that it's not my problem, I poll from

a Courier.



It's just I've never seen/heard of a sysop/point having so many problems

with such an assorted variety of modems.

Hhhhmmmmm...... what does that mean????



Randall             23-May-1996, 9:32.

        InterNet   : laner{at}madhouse.brisnet.org.au





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