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Roger Halstead wrote:
One thing that has changed...my posts are showing up right away...they often take as long as 12 to 24 hours on some of the newsgroups. Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member) www.rogerhalstead.com N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2) I'm only getting half of my normal allotment of SPAM. Sliver lining and all that. -- Jeff 'The Wizard of Draws' Bucchino "Cartoons with a Touch of Magic" http://www.wizardofdraws.com http://www.cartoonclipart.com Arnold for Governor! http://www.wizardofdraws.com/store/terminator.html |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:31:47 -0700, "Tom S." wrote:
"Tom S." wrote in message ... "Morgans" wrote in message ... "Roger Halstead" wrote in message One thing that has changed...my posts are showing up right away...they often take as long as 12 to 24 hours on some of the newsgroups. Roger Halstead ***************************** Really? Mine commonly show up within 2 or 3 minutes. Mine show up in seconds. Hit "send", then "refresh" and there it is. Yup! Rub it in! Rub it in! :-)) Newsgroup service here has been really poor for some time. Not sure why, but prior to yesterday I could count on it taking as much as 12 to 24 hours for my post to appear. Yet I might see two or three answers prior to my original showing up. Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member) www.rogerhalstead.com N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2) |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 23:40:11 GMT, Wizard of Draws
wrote: Roger Halstead wrote: One thing that has changed...my posts are showing up right away...they often take as long as 12 to 24 hours on some of the newsgroups. Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member) www.rogerhalstead.com N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2) I'm only getting half of my normal allotment of SPAM. Sliver lining and all that. Ur right...it is down...Only 48 so far and almost all of those were filtered out. It's usually about 60 a day for the past couple of months.... However if you want spam to go down you need to shut the power off in Florida, not the NE. BTW, virtually every post tonight has been hit send, refresh and I find it. Refreshing. Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member) www.rogerhalstead.com N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2) |
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"Peter R." wrote in message ds.com... Roger Halstead ) wrote: BTW, that "out east" is kind of a slight to the people who are without power. It extends to the west as far as (and apparently started in Ohio). It also covers a good portion of lower Michigan Roger, any point east of California is out east to some! -- Peter That should read Back East and Out West :-) |
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Wizard of Draws wrote: I'm only getting half of my normal allotment of SPAM. Sliver lining and all that. I've been told that much of the telemarketing business is located in Toronto, which was affected by the blackout. Wonder if it's a big center for spam generators? George Patterson Brute force has an elegance all its own. |
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"Peter R." wrote: Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo wrote: I had to add this one...so about the 5th hour of the power outage my wife and I are listening to the portable radio and this lady calls in and we hear... "Perhaps it's times like these when it's inconvenient to lose power of course but then it's also a time for the family to finally gather together and share long overdue quality time together" and within moments of that comment, so help me, we hear from the background a rather blustery, "Hey! Gimme that friggin' flashlight, Joey, or I'll bop you with it!" So much for family huddled 'quality time.' That is classic! It must have been hilarious to hear it in real time. -- Peter Peter: Normally they have these 3 seconds [or more, dunno] delays for such things [although they themselves were on generator power and possibly the more fancy electronic gizmos were not functioning...dunno] and there is always the possibility of a set-up because when there's just nothing on in those kind of large area emergency situations, radio stations turn to the phones for folks to essentially check-in and give reports but the stuff coming in is amazing ranging from those who feel the end is upon us and thus all should repent or that it's a terrorist movement of some sort and others, let us say, by the speech and demeanor being obvious 'victims of the thirst' [or grape] as the Irish brethren would say. This one was just totally unexpected BUT as anyone who has children can testify [or recall], it 'can' get hairy as time goes on and the kids have nothing to do when candles and essentially staring at each other or the ceiling is the sum total of passing the hours [I pulled out the old folk guitar but, hey, how long can I keep that up when the fingers begin hurting after so many years of non use!] beyond the first 3 or 4...or so. And 91 degrees heat and 100% humidity notwithstanding. Yet, did you catch most of those news report beginnings, Peter, where the classic [under]-statement was "...Well, this was not supposed to happen folks...but it did!" and then the equally classic aftermath of such things: the fixing of the blame. So far, I've heard the fault put on everything from the 'Big Apple' to Canada to Ohio [!] to, you guessed it, Al Quaeda [how the hell is that properly spelled anyway!? I've seen about 5 different versions!] operative machinations. Doc Tony |
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:11:16 GMT, "Dave Stadt"
wrote: One government nit wit gave out a WEB address on a news program for those without power to log onto to get status of the problem. Announcer made a comment about the guy being out of touch with reality and dumped the phone line. Uh... modern laptops connected to a land telephone line would have had at least 4 hours of battery life for a careful user to shepherd all the way through the crisis, to get updates. But an AM or shortwave radio would have lasted much much longer. Rob |
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:46:20 GMT, Robert Perkins
wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:11:16 GMT, "Dave Stadt" wrote: One government nit wit gave out a WEB address on a news program for those without power to log onto to get status of the problem. Announcer made a comment about the guy being out of touch with reality and dumped the phone line. Uh... modern laptops connected to a land telephone line would have had at least 4 hours of battery life for a careful user to shepherd all the way through the crisis, to get updates. But an AM or shortwave radio would have lasted much much longer. Although the telephone companies use DC and *HUGE* battery banks there were several that did go down. I wonder how they backup the cell towers and how long the will stay up without the power lines. Of the modern countries the US is ranked as the lowest when it comes to cell phones as the primary phone. Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member) www.rogerhalstead.com N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2) Rob |
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"Robert Perkins" wrote in message ... On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:11:16 GMT, "Dave Stadt" wrote: One government nit wit gave out a WEB address on a news program for those without power to log onto to get status of the problem. Announcer made a comment about the guy being out of touch with reality and dumped the phone line. Uh... modern laptops connected to a land telephone line would have had at least 4 hours of battery life for a careful user to shepherd all the way through the crisis, to get updates. Uh.....as they watched their solar powered TVs to get the WEB address. But an AM or shortwave radio would have lasted much much longer. Only if powered by batteries and fresh ones at that. Rob |
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