Ludi, at 12:42 on Dec 30 1996, you wrote to David Drummond ...

. . .[chomp]. . .

DD>> In order for two people to communicate using sign-
DD>> language, is it necessary for both people to 
DD>> understand sign-language, or just one?
  
LD> Sure,  but this still doesn't answer his question.
  
LD> In my m34f at least disabling retraining or speed shifting 
LD> will not resultin them being rejected if requested by the 
LD> remote modem.  

Then, they're NOT disabled.  Maybe you've disabled yours from REQUESTING a
retrain, but it certainly sounds like it honours those requested from the
other end.

LD> I'm connected to a Courier now,  it's happily 
LD> retraining and speed shifting over the noisy line.  If I 
LD> enable the retrain/rate change with %E1/2 then my modem will 
LD> start sending requests to the Courier to retrain or shift, 
LD> as well as receiving requests from the Courier.

And if you instruct your modem to not retrain the courier will hang up in
disgust as soon as a request is refused.

David
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