[Wlug] 2 *&@#&% megabyte message

[Bill Smith]

--=.EadTpPy.UCtwHC
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 02:26:16 -0500 (EST)
Karl Hiramoto <karl@zoop.org> wrote:

KH> It's your own fault for having a crappy dialup and not getting
KH> message headers before downloading the whole thing :)   so
KH> apparently ANYONE could send you a large file and cause the same
KH> problem.

(1) not everyone can afford Broadband or DSL.  i don't even have CABLE,
for crying out loud!

(2) i'm not as quich to react as our friend.  if i were a betting man,
i'd wager my connection is slower than his (mine is a whopping 31.2kbps
'cause i have dirty (old?) lines and my lease says that i have to foot
the bill to clean them if i want better), but i waited to see who was
the culprit.  seeing that it was Andy, i figured that if anyone should
have been justified in posting something that insanely huge, it should
be him.  <shrug>

KH> When i moved into this apartment one thing I made sure before i
KH> signed the lease was that i could get broadband with a static IP for
KH> my box :)

maybe for me when i'm working again, but not before.

KH> Sorry I just can't relate to only having a dialup..   I can't
KH> imagine the pain you must have :)

if you would like, i can put things in perspective for you....  i've
been playing with dial-ups since '90...  my first modem when at a nice
quick 1200 baud.  :)  (yeah, i know some of you Old Timers used to
communicate by tapping in Morse on the phone receiver....  <g>)  to ME,
56k is nice (been there, before i moved to this "commonwealth"), but i'm
not in a position to be complaining too much.

 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
  William Smith                 wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com
  Fall River, MA                http://www.chezsmith.com

   If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still
            a foolish thing."  -- Anatole France
                       * TAG!  v3.1 *


--=.EadTpPy.UCtwHC
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE9xDK5yRDfndHyxpQRAm2mAJ9+hYMolfd+10SVS8J9QhcL52lOjACfUsti
TOicI7ODt8qfSG0bUkabGf0=
=mMqZ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--=.EadTpPy.UCtwHC--