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Re: learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL
| Re: learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL [message #353575] |
Thu, 28 September 2017 05:49 |
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Originally posted by: Bob Eager
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:18:32 +0000, Huge wrote:
> On 2017-09-28, Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 08:59:18 +0000, Huge wrote:
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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.
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>> I have just realised a downside to that.
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>> 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.
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> You have a tiny break in the line. It fills with water, which causes
> corrosion & breaks the circuit. The ringing current breaks through the
> corrosion & restores the circuit. It's a well known type of telephony
> fault.
Oh, I know. My point was that because it does telephony as well, I can
actually ring it and temporarily fix it.
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