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 

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

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 

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

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.

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