On Monday 16 October 2006 01:45 pm, Mark Tapley wrote:
At 12:00 -0500 10/16/06, Roy Tellason wrote:
That was my way to do dialup for a while here
until it got weird after a
storm.
This seems to be a recurring theme in posts here. At least here in
the central US, thunderstorms are pretty predictable. I have made it
SOP for over a decade now to just disconnect classic gear from the
wall when one is known to be approaching.
As I recall we weren't home at the time and it came up rather suddenly...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of spac, a critter that can
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