On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 08:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/28/08 21:32, Paul Johnson wrote: > [snip] > > > > Besides, do you really trust the phone company to provide proper voltage > > and polarity? Any idea what a line surge directly to your motherboard > > does? :o) > > YAIBF - Yet Another Idiotic Baloo Flame > > If you've ever connected to a BBS, or the Intarweb via the PSTN, > then *YES*, you *do* trust the phone company to provide proper > voltage and polarity. Or you're chancing it because you don't have a choice. Qwest and Verizon are both notorious for not holding proper voltage in rainstorms, and in apartment and condo buildings where they own all the telecom wiring, as often as not, the jacks are wired with the polarity backwards. Offer to fix it for them, they offer to sue you in return. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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