Rod, at 05:09 on Jun 19 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> I'd positively KILL for lines like that!

RS> Well, I dunno if I would kill for one, but it sure would be nice.

BG> Given a free choice of your intended victim though, I wonder...  :)

BG> Little Johnny might just be needing his flak-jacket after all.  :)

RS> True, I'd certainly be prepared to see
RS> Jackboot a corpse and have a line like that |-)

I thought you might change your tune, especially with such an incredible
win-win deal like that, although I'd probably even be prepared to forego
the new line if Johnny's demise was 100% guaranteed.

RS> And you didnt say who he had called, presumably the bulldog.

BG> Yep.  Dave's is actually a very useful board when it comes to
BG> requiring a good base-line reference for 33k6bps connects.

RS> Yep, that combined with the graph of the actual frequency
RS> response may well provide some damned interesting info over time.

I occasionally compare my current stats to Dave against those which were
logged several months ago, and the really nice thing about his board is the
incredible consistency of the recorded values, which are always within just
a fraction of a percent of each other.  Makes for an excellent long-term
point of reference.

RS> I was thinking that if they werent within spitting distance of the
RS> exchange like the bulldog and that FNQ site of Russ's, that maybe we were
RS> seeing effectively the same thing with RCMs. Those are basically the entire
RS> set of line interfaces moved out to a box out amoungst the customers.

Good point.  There's nothing even remotely like that around here, but
somewhere like Mt Glorious would be idealy suited to that, with its
slightly more limited subscriber base.

BG> Can't speak for Tom, but I believe that he lives on Mt Glorious
BG> where there is basically only the one road, with all subs well
BG> away from any form of electrical or pulse interference, and I'm sure
BG> that makes quite a difference in his case.  The lucky bastard!  :)

RS> I know he used to, I somehow got the impression that he might have
RS> moved into Bris proper tho.

Dunno, I did ask him the other day, although I should have got off my arse
and simply looked him up in the phone book.  After all, how many Przeors
can there be in Brisbane anyway?

RS> Maybe from something he had said in an ad or something. Corse that could 
RS> have just been a visit into Bris too.

Presumably you knew he'd been OS for 6 months or so too, which explains his
absence from email during that period.

BTW, Optus was up our street yesterday, installing their incredibly ugly
cable TV wiring, so I told one of the fellows that I thought it looked
positively disgusting, which in retrospect wasn't such a good idea, as it
occurred to me a bit later that had I played my cards right, for the cost
of a carton or two of tinnies, I could have had my phone running on their
coax...  :)

Regards, Bill
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