Roger,
I check my main "hoax" reference pages and there is no mention of this;
however, that could be because not many people care about what's printed
in a Tucson [when are they gonna learn how to spell 2Sahn?] newspaper.
<G>
If you stop and think about it, however, you should be able to see how
ludicrous the concept is. What on earth would a server site want with
slow phone connections [they must be connected somehow] at 53,000 bps
maximum? And the phone bills would be horrid! <G> Far cheaper to buy a
couple of new servers with a few billion gigabytes of storage at far
faster speeds.
The moral is this story is: Do Not believe everything you see in a
newspaper. It is a proven fact that the ratio of idiots writing for
papers is the same as the ratio of idiots in the general population.
l.d.
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:34:01 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
> In this morning's newspaper there was a story that Juno is requiring
> subscribers to leave their computers on 24-hours a day so that Juno can use
> the computer when the subscriber isn't. It was described as operating
> something similar to a screen saver.
> Is this a big Juno joke? Today is February 5, 2001, not April 1st (April
> Fool's Day) or did the paper run the story almost two months early?
> Any Juno subscribers: Did you get a message from Juno modifying your
> subscriber agreement?
> Roger Turk
> Tucson, Arizona USA
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