Replying to a message of mark lewis to Crystal Walters:

 KW>> it's time to call some BBSes while there are still dialups left!

 CW>> There are still dialups left?? _>

 ml> absolutely! it is how fidonet stays connected when the internet get
 ml> broken... landlines are also still in use in many places because it
 ml> doesn't take much for a storm to knock out cell towers and internet
 ml> comms but POTS lines just keep going and going and going... not to
 ml> mention that copper is much easier to splice back together than fiber
 ml> ;)

In tis area the phone cables are buried.  In my walking the dogs around the block
(a 4 mile trip) I discovered that the county had exposed - and broken - a many-pair
phone cable, Qwest had apparently relocated the line and just left the old
cable in place.
I have a couple of hundred feet of it (g).

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