Paul, at 19:29 on Mar 21 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

PE> Those figures, used as they stand, do NOT measure line quality accurately.

BG> Sorry Paul, but on the one hand I have you, a known anti-USR Zealot, and 

PE> Err, sorry Bill, I'm not an anti-USR zealot.  You're just too much
PE> of a zealot to realise that.

Sorry, you're an anti-everything zealot.  How silly of me.

BG> none too bright in the modem-engineering area, telling me that the USR's 
BG> line probe figures are buggy, inaccurate, amd completely worthless (yet by 
BG> the same token, you still can't explain to me why this might be so), and on 

PE> It's not up to me to explain how USR stuffed up, just for me to point
PE> out that the lines don't change, therefore the results returned by
PE> the USR are at fault.

And the NetComm's aren't?  Make up your mind, Paul.

BG> the other, I have Joe from USR, all round nice guy and highly intelligent 
BG> individual, who tells me that the figures ARE accurate after all.

PE> Yeah, completely unbiassed opinion you get from someone who is 
PE> employed by USR.  You presumably get your unbiassed views on
PE> communism from Stalin himself.  Blow it out your arse, Bill.

Phhhhttttt!

Regards, Bill

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