On 23/01/2017, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forwarding what should have been an off-list message, to the list, as > the address to which the reply was addressed, is bogus. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:46:45 +0800 > Subject: Re: Plain-text formatting > To: Daniel <dan...@albury.net.spam.au> > > On 23/01/2017, Daniel <dan...@albury.net.spam.au> wrote: > <snip> > >> >> One day, if I'm lucky, I'll get an ADSL standard connection. But not >> soon!! >> >> -- >> Daniel >> > > Ah - I think you will be out of luck, there. > > The whole landline telephone network is being progressively shut down, > in Australia, and, replaced with the forced NBN thing, which means, > amongst other things, that the emergency services will be > incommunicado, in an electricity failure. We are told that we will > have to keep our cellphones fully charged, all of the time, to provide > for the NBN and therefore, communications with the emergency services, > going down. But, for people like us, who have intermittent cellphone > access, "we just gotta die" After all, Western Australia IS a remote > community... I don't know what your cellphone access in Albury, is > like, but, if it is as bad as ours, you will need a very reliable > prayer book. >
Oh, and, because this is a country where households get punished for having and using domestic rooftop photovoltaic systems (Australia has yet to progress out of the coal-fired steam age), we are prohibited from having and using battery storage systems, that could otherwise help protect us from the all-too frequent electricity blackouts due to malevolent and incompetent electricity companies. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
