Charles Angelich wrote in a message to Phil Marlowe:

CA> This archived QWK packet of messages would be a good 'read' but
CA> it's a bit long for most I suspect. 

Speaking of which,  every once in a while I get a reminder of why it is I'm
still doing this...

Came in here this morning and saw a caller on my screen:

: 20 Jul 09:42:02 MAX  Download QWK packet
: 20 Jul 09:45:38 MAX  Return from: "c:\util\pkzip -a Olr\node01(...)
+ 20 Jul 10:32:35 MAX  CPS: 1480 (4157031 bytes)  Efficiency: 102%
= 20 Jul 10:32:35 MAX  DL-Z Olr\node01\TANSTAAF.QWK
= 20 Jul 10:32:35 MAX  Free DL: reimbursed 4059 Kb

Four meg?  Jeez...!  :-)

And that was at 14.4!!!

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