*** Quoting Bill Cooper to Rick Collins dated 03-27-97 ***
> Ummm... sorry Rick, but I saw it and the Sysop of that particular BBS
> saw it too. Regardless of the mathematical equations linking this
> "barrier", I know what I saw and both of us (the Sysop and I) confirmed
> this connection between ourselves, therefore this argument is moot at
> best.  You and the others here can state all sorts of technical jargon,
> limitations, line noise, flatulence, ad nauseum.... the fact still
> remains that I did see this speed from my Courier being connected to
> another Courier.
> 
So?
The minor detail that you didn't address in the above is that Rick said such 
wasn't possible via error correction alone.
All he is saying is that there HAD to be data compression as well.
Are you contending otherwise?
For my part, I do NOT get anywhere near full throughput on compressed files, 
so regardless of anything else, I would have to take this with a couple 
grains of salt.  There ARE more than a couple of issues that CAN impact what 
you have reported.
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