(Excerpts from a message dated 11-02-99, Holger Granholm to Murray
Lesser)

Hi Holger--

ML>    VMODEM is part of the SIO package.  It acts as both telnet
ML>client and telnet server, so you can both download and upload files
ML>through it.

HG>Yes I know that because I'm using SIO v1.60. Maybe I'm wrong, but I
  >think one has to have a continuous connection to an ISP to use
  >VModem. I connect with modem.

    Where did you get that strange idea?  I usually connect to my ISP by
modem dial-up every morning, checking for e-mail (using MR/2 ICE) and
uploading to and downloading from the conferences I am interested in on
Pete Norloff's BBS by telnet (vmodem).  My total connect time per day
(unless I am downloading a program, or have some reason to frustrate
myself by trying to get information from the Web) is usually less than
two minutes.  For safety's sake, my computer is physically disconnected
from the telephone line when I am not using the modem.  (Since I don't
run a BBS, I do not accept incoming modem calls.  All reading/writing is
done off-line.)

    Try it.  You might like it.

    BTW.  This message will not be uploaded to Pete's BBS until I
connect again tomorrow morning (4 November).  The time stamp is for the
time I wrote the message, not the time it was received by the BBS.

    Regards,

        --Murray

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