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From: tbray@mprvaxa.UUCP (Tim Bray)
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Subject: Re: Acoustic coupling and the CCITT - WHAT?!?
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Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 13:02:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 28 13:02:25 1984
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Acoustic couplers, in my experience, are:
	- flaky
	- unreliable
	- slow
	- overpriced
	.......etc....

They deserve to become a dead technology.  The CCITT is right on this
one.  Not that they always are, by any means.

Whaddayamean you can only get direct-connects on a rental from the
phone company?  I can buy an ok little 300 jack-compatible for
very little money, and a really nice 1200 Rixon or Hayes for
(sigh) quite a bit of money.

Now, I don't TELL the phone company what I'm doing.  Why ask for trouble?