Re: CC's on this mailing list
From: Dan Stromberg <strombrg@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
> 1) Have you switched up to a 28.8kbps modem yet, or at least a 14.4kbps
> modem?
We may be a bit spoiled here in the U.S.
Some people have to buy their net service from a government-mandated
monopoly, and pay by the packet. 28.8 modems are _illegal_ in some
places because the Post Office (regulator of _all_ communications) has
not approved them. You have to smuggle them in from other countries,
and when you use them, you are bootlegging.
About the funniest part is trying to find a pay phone. Many countries
only have them in post offices. When I visited Australia, there were
blue phones and gold phones, and only the gold ones could make long
distance calls.
Bruce
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