Scott Ford wrote: >Had a Hasp RJE like that John, everytime it rained there were strange >creatures on the phone lines...of course the standard phone company reply was >classic, no problems here and the problems always disappeared.
I'm certainly no apologist for Big Phone, but have to relate a contra-story in the spirit of fairness: In the mid-80s I lived in Waterloo, Ontario. Working late at night over my speedy 2400bps dialup, I'd get bad characters occasionally, but always the *same* characters (curly braces, forget which direction). I called Bell Canada, and they not only took it seriously and investigated, but got back to me to tell me that it was automated line testing, and that they'd turned it off for my line. Of course that person was probably RIFfed soon after... ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
