John, at 09:47 on Nov 09 1996, you wrote to David Drummond ...

DD>> Notice that I don't utter rude words about Telstra?  They 
DD>> detect these naughty things you know, and punish you by 
DD>> introducing noise to your line. :-)

JP> Have you ever seen me utter rude words about Telstra? In any 
JP> event, line noise isn't a problem for me; never has been. 
JP> Interestingly, I called Albert's M34F the other night. I 
JP> connected at 31200 bps (as I always do), but I was given a 
JP> nice surprise when I dropped to command mode and discovered 
JP> that the link speed shifted to 33600 in both directions. 
JP> I've never seen this happen before.

It won't happen overnight, but it will happen...

David
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