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Date:	Tue, 15 May 2001 21:51:11 PDT
From:	Robert Blair <blairra@tstonramp.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-SundialSIG: The true source

** Reply to note from scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com Tue, 15 May 2001 11:02:38 PDT

> This calls for a vote. Everybody who is overwhelmed by duplicate posts
> please say so. And please respond in triplicate.

I vote against multiple posting. It is against net-etiquette.

> Lemme figure this out (where's my slide rule), okay, a 3,000-character
> text message with parity and stop bits comes to 30,000 bits, and for an
> extra minute of download time (is that a penny?) would come to (umm,
> lessee that's log 3 minus log 6) 500 bits per second. Okay, you're
> right, if they can't afford to upgrade that 1200 baud modem they're
> using then we probably shouldn't be increasing their traffic.

You should not make fun of people. I have lived in England and phone
bills can be very high. In fact when I first moved there a bill only
contained an amount to pay with no indication of what was being billed.
This has changed now to where you get an itemized bill, but this is
a recent change. The phone service is lousy and in some cases you
probably can not go faster than 1200 baud. I think I could get 2400 baud
at the house I was renting.

Robert Blair

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