James Bradley wrote in a message to Bo Simonsen:

 JB> I just noticed LINUX was expounded to include a number of branches.
 JB> Good and well, but if there are fourteen echoes on Windows, a user
 JB> might get frustrated while posting to a little visited echo. The
 JB> same might happen to the plethora of Linux echoes too. I'll use the
 JB> modem echoes as an example. The echo on Zyxel modems, I believe was
 JB> delisted, but the Hayes specific echo may still be around due to
 JB> these relaxed rules. (I'm pulling these names out of my hat, just
 JB> to illustrate my point.) If USR_MODEM and MODEM, and
 JB> WHATEVER_MODEM, see paltry traffic by themselves, maybe the readers
 JB> would be better served by a streamlined, mean and lean MODEMS - all
 JB> inclusive - echo?

I used to carry a bunch of product-specific echos here,  but many if not
most of them are pretty much dead.  And as far as the stuff that's getting
listed goes,  look at how many of those are gated (and filtered!)
newsgroups.  Hell,  if I want newsgroups I can go get 'em.  I don't need to
be pulling them in via fido these days.

 JB> ... It's a good thing; you can't have it all. Where would you put
 JB> it? 

One would assume that "all" would include that!

Getting back to electronics,  I carry a number of mailing lists here on my
other box.  And in one of them this guy posted,  not once but in two
separate messages,  as to how a transformer not only changed the voltage
but also changed the AC from the power line to DC.  I let it go the first
time but the second time I saw it I finally had to jump in there and say
that he didn't know what the heck he was talking about...!

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