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Re: learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #353572] |
Thu, 28 September 2017 05:04 |
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Originally posted by: Bob Eager
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 08:59:18 +0000, Huge wrote:
> On 2017-09-28, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:11:50 +0100 Tim Streater
>> <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
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>>> In article <02d39e3c-83b0-4b6d-a32c-3f39829db974@googlegroups.com>,
>>> <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
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>>>> _Personally_, I hate using my cellphone and much prefer to make calls
>>>> on a real landline. But it is clear that the rest of the world sees
>>>> it otherwise, and much prefer their cellphones. They've let their
>>>> landlines go. Now the phonecos want to kill off landlines
>>>> altogether.
>>>
>>> Not here they don't. In any case, how else would I get broadband
>>> service?
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>> I have no landline but I have 70/6 broadband courtesy of a little
>> unit on the roof talking LTE to a tower several miles away.
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> It is entirely possible to rent a "broadband only" pair that provides no
> telephone service. You just need to go to a decent ISP.
I have just realised a downside to that.
I appear to have an intermittent cable fault here. The line goes down for
no apparent reason, and sometimes comes back. So far I've managed to get
it back every time by sending ringing current down it.
--
Using UNIX since v6 (1975)...
Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
http://www.mirrorservice.org
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