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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:39:20 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The sole of a new machine
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> The exclamation point character (!) is often read as "bang".

At first I was thinking that it was the number sign (#) that was called
a bang.  Then I remembered it was pound, not bang.  I get these noises
confused.  To me, ! is an exclamation point and # is a number sign.

> ra> ls -a
> .               ..              bernard.gif     core            mbox

What a messy file-keeper you think I am!  I immediately delete any cores
I find lying around, and I would never have bernard.gif in the same
directory as mbox.  And surely there would be some hidden files in the
directory with mbox.

> ra> uptime
>   3:25pm  up 10 days,  2:15,  2 users,  load average: 0.53, 0.57, 0.49

I would love to see the day when there were only 2 users on Ra at 3:25 p.m.!

> ("Exclamation point" has too many syllables...)

We could start calling it EP perhaps...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:19:02 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Gender
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> >  If somebody used "hit" (neuter) instead of "heo" (feminine) to stand for
> >  "wund" (wound -- feminine) in OE, would you consider it an error in gender?
> >     --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
> That would be a mistake in grammatical gender--you can recognize
> it as a mistake by knowing about the *form* of wund without
> knowing anything about what wund "means"--you can recognize that

Oh?  How would you know from the nominative singular of "wund" that
it's not the same gender as "stan"?

> about what the game is "about".  Cf. rules of addition and you're
> checkbook.  A "grammatical" mistake is where the addition is
> wrong given the numbers in the book.  A "lexical" mistake is where
> cheque #234 was for $2.38 and not $4.37.  The balance still comes
> out wrong, but in the latter case, you can't say why just from
> knowing how to add and subtract and from looking at the entries.

Not bad.

> Seems reasonable for nine-thirty in the morning without having
> had any coffee.  Hm?

The day is already getting old for me, especially since I just sat through
two boring speeches.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 09:33:00 EST
From:         Adam Hartfield <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>
Subject:      Music Junkie
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I'm a music junkie.  As it says in my needing-to-be-updated bio, I
don't go much of anywhere without my discman.

Come Saturday I'll be going off-net.  I can't afford Drew any longer,
so I'm taking a semester/possibly a year off to earn some money so I
can come back and get my degree.  I'm going to buy a modem today so
that I can call in from home (yeesh..that's 3 states away), so if
anyone wants to send me mail at ahartfie@drunivac.drew.edu or
ahartfie@drunivac.bitnet, you're more than welcome to do so.  I'm
going to be setting nomail on Saturday, and believe me, I'm going to
miss this virtual family very much.  Y'all have been a part of my
life for the past year and a half, and it's going to be very
difficult to adjust to life without Words-L.

--Adam (ahartfie@{drew, drunivac}{.bitnet, .drew.edu})
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:18:46 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Pedant mode and pronouns
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> Hey, Karen--if you were really in pedant mode you'd have mentioned that
> gender distinctions in languages are *grammatical*--they have almost
> nothing to do with gender as in sex.  Girls in Kraut are neuter;

The only gender-related items in Japanese *do* have to do w/ the
sex of the referent.

I thought I pointed out elsewhere (truly in pedant mode!!!) that
these so-called genders in Indo-European lgs. are simply a way of
counting, and have nothing to do w/ the sex of the referent?

Karen
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:42:51 EDT
From:         Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gender
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>> >I just can't IMAGINE the wonderful abh liking a blonde bimbo in red/green/
>> >other color of the week/ plastic glasses.
>> >dan
>>
>> Elaine, wearer of bright red plastic glasses
>
>But no bimbo.
>
>Karen

damn, and I was trying so hard, too !

Elaine
From: LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Karen Kay)
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Subject: Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM!
Date: 19 Aug 92 07:52:50 GMT
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> Posted on 19 Aug 1992 at 04:18:45 by karsten
> You wouldn't happen to be assuming that all computer geeks are
> of one sex, would you?  Or are "guy" and "his", as used above,
> inclusive terms?
> --karsten
> just tying threads together...

And not doing a bad job of it.  The only female computer geek I've
known ungeeked herself in grad school. Aren't they relatively rarer?
Anyway, I always think of geeks as men, too.  Or is that men as geeks?:)

Karen
what is a geek anyway?
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:13:11 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Yes, I'm an e-wimp
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              18 Aug 1992 14:28:27 EDT from
              <PBARFOOT%SUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:28:27 EDT <PBARFOOT%SUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> said:
>maybe not.)HEY, does anybody have any wisdom on why Pat Buchanan
>thinks Hillary Clinton is a radical feminist ? I'd love to introduce
>him to a few women I know. Gotta keep things in perspective here

hell, i'd love to have the corner on the market on tickets to the
confrontation between   pb  and abh/bwp.....that would be worth paying
a LOT to see....

dan
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:20:31 -0700
From:         MGARBER@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
Subject:      RE: The Evidence
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Despite the very civilized welcome and introduction I am confused. What kind of
 a BB is this
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:42:49 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Acronyms/Gender
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              13 Aug 92 06:38:18 -0500. <9208131140.AA04131@sics.se>

 >I'm not sure either, but that's the way I define "acronym."

  It appears that (the Next) webster agrees with you:

> webster acronym
ac-ro-nym \'ak-re-,nim\ n
[acr- + -onym (as in homonym)]
(1943)
:a word (as radar or snafu) formed from the initial letter or letters
     of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound
     term
-- ac-ro-nym-ic \,ak-re-'nim-ik\ adj
-- ac-ro-nym-i-cal-ly \-i-k(e-)le^-\ adv
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 08:33:00 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: A Restaurant Scene
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> The rule is loosly:  One thing at a time.  In the restaurant, I would

Things are sometimes that way here, too, Steph. The shop behaviour (1
thing at a time) that you described is exactly what happens here.
And it used to drive me crazy!

Karen
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Old machines
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 22:10:52 GMT


In a previous article, AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Entropy Warrior) says:

>>Ruth, honey chile, I was typing on electric keyboards before you were born!
>
>Do did you also have an IBM typewriter with a gasoline engine?

If he doesn't, I used to come close.  We had an IBM Selectric [first ed.]
in municipal upchuck green, for about ten years.  It died eventually of old
age and overwork.  I think my high school homework killed it.....

>
-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 10:25:23 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      re: Ritual Killings
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> Posted on 14 Aug 1992 at 00:09:27 by Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik
> By the way, are these voudoun killings in your murder mystery being
> performed by the real folk, or are these self-styled magicians?  Just
> curious...

The killings of human beings were done by the town bully; the
voudou practitioners only killed animals.  The bully butchered
a goat and left bits of it on people's porches to imitate voodoo.

I just finished another one last night, and I have a sentence for
you from that one.  "New leaders representing other ethnical interests
challenged him..."  Eeek!!!!  What a word!  It could be a typo--this
book is not carefully put together.

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:36:32 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: List wars
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              92 3:15 pm

> Don't send the mail to LITERARY, send it to Tim.  I know this guy, and
> that message is typical of his style.  Why make the whole list suffer?

	Why, Evelyn... Because we *can*, of course.

Rita
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 11:57:19 EDT
From:         Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Geekefaction
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>Hey--the bimbos had their time on the list.  A female geek is
>probably a librarian.
>
as someone who was the subject of some of the bimbo discussion and
who also spends time doing a really good geek imitation, I would
suggest that the terms are not necessarily mutually exclusive ...

Elaine, not a librarian
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:22:05 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Thank Goodness for Torkel

On Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:58:20 +0200 <torkel@SICS.SE> said:

>  Yep, I'm here, working hard as always. The window is open and there's
>a cool quiet rain falling. The coffee break is coming up, so if you were
>here I could treat you to a cup of (Gevalia) coffee and a biscuit.

Is Gevalia coffee considered "upscale" in Sweden ?  Here it shows
up most often at theatre intermissions and so on, at a high price.
I see it in stores from time to time, but it's certainly not run-of-
the-mill (so to speak) stuff.  Very good though - why should Swedes
be good at packaging coffee ?  I assume it's not grown there.

Tony H.
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:32:27 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: SIMON & GARFUNKEL

On Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:21:00 EDT Stephen R. Guilmet (617) 552-4890 said:
>
>Do you suppose that people will still be listening to Vanilla Ice
>twenty years from now?

Maybe Vanilla Ice will be the 90's answer to Paper Lace.
>
>Steve (yes I know Rita L. she works in the next cube) Guilmet
>Boston College

Evelyn
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:57:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM!
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

> >And don't forget math; geeks love math.
>
> Then Giggles must be right after all because I flunked algebra in junior high
   1)^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> school and took "Math for Consumers" at the college level. I have never been
> able to work math problems accurately and have relied upon a calculator or
> computer to do them for me since I gave up my slide rule in 1974.
>
> Math love is a frequent accompanyment of geek-ness, but the Ideal Form
> "Geek" is not so much an aptitude as an attitude.
 2)^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Right, Rita?
>
> -abh

1)  Giggles is *always* right, just ask his tc/sw
2)  the Ideal Form "Geek" is male; the Ideal From "Geequette" is
    female.
 --ggs
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor)
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Subject: Re: Doublings
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:32:35 GMT
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> *O*.2????  Where were you brought up?

What's wrong with 0.2%?  Doesn't it mean 1/5 of 1%?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:25:24 -0400
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      For Russia with love
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              Aug 20, 92 6:17 pm

TNKS, Entropy

Agnes
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:25:08 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Modems excite me...
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> > If I don't have a pause, PCPLUS dials before the dialtone comes
> > up.
>
> Bizarre.  That's never been a problem, but I'll try anything.
> I'm at work now, so it'll have to wait.

I've used PCPLUS on various computers to dial many different phone numbers
of four, seven, eight, and eleven digits and have never had that problem.
The only time I've needed a comma was to dial something like an 8 or 9 to
get out of a motel room.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 08:28:57 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Phonology and tv
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> The dialects here vary so much that people of different dialects really
> can't understand each other (or at least that's what I've been told)

That is a significant point, making the situation quite different from
what I was talking about earlier.

> interesting problem because what means a two-pronged pitchfork in one
> place means a three-pronged one in another as well, so not only do you
> have to see that the same word is being used, but you've got to make
> sure it means the same thing.  (Do we do this in English?  I can't think
> of an example.)

If somebody offers me a "soda," I expect either an ice-cream-based drink
or something to mix with scotch.  That is not necessarily what the speaker
of a different U.S. dialect means.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU (Bandwidth Pig)
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Subject: RE: Net aliases and paranoia
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:30:55 GMT
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>Please, Pleeaassee, anything but the AD analogy!  BTW, it was --abh
>who introduced the -ology.

Yeah, and I got it from Paula Abdul's "Vibology."

-abh
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Original-From: hlwpk!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:02:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: ABD
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>AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu writes:
>>Hey--we ought to do a survey of the list--how many ABD's v. Docs.
>
>Someone will have to tell me what ABD means first.  From context it sounds
>like an abbreviation of 'Abandoned'...

ABD means "all but dissertation," or "all but dead."

Ken
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:41:44 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: List wars
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> Hey--I said nothing but *good* things about Words-L and its
> denizens--and to someone who seemed bummed that there was nothing

He's right.  I just read the log.  Neat mail-loop they had early this
month.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:19:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Help
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> On Wed, 19 Aug 1992, Ruth M. Hanschka wrote:
> > >        /\_____/\
> > >       -/ ''''' \-
> > >        {''o o''}  Muffy, the only good cat is a dead cat!
> > >        {  \^/  }(except of course Seigi, Muffy the Cat, Maxmillian and
> > >       ////'''\\\\ friend, Lil' Bit and *maybe* Qunicy)
> > 	And of course Max - he might get upset if you forgot him.:-)
>
> And Toscanini and Cat Ballou would be very upset if you forgot them, too.
> ndh

Don't forget me, please, I'm a very good kitty when I get the kind
of food I like or get to sit on -ggs' lap....
--Ruby
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:29:05 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Dictionaries
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> *: probably running unix though...

Well, then.  I think MUSIC is the antithesis of unix.

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:37:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: Swinging for the fence
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Anne Harwell, you are the first Republican for whom I would willingly
vote in a local, state, or federal election.  Too bad you're not
running.  You make more sense than the rest of those jerks put
together.

(Who will Bush appoint as his Surgeon General if he gets reelected?
Randall Terry?)

Ken
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:56:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Let's try this again, shall we?
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> In article <WORDS-L%92081901132777@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.ED
> writes:
> >> na, I don't have to watch my back from Giggles...
> >Uh, G, do me a favor.  Reach me that soap please.
> >--ggs (thanks, I needed that....)
>
> Hey - that's Don's joke, isn't it?  From vet-l?

Now it's everybody's joke... it belongs to the ages.
--ggs
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 12:44:59 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      RE: TshirtII, Cubbies, zero
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I don't like the Ozymandias idea.  You know what happened to *his* works.
WORDS-L is more lasting than that.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:47:36 EDT
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From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      RE: fuzzy headed distortionn

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>ideologues to justify their <fear><hate><outrage><you-name-it> relative
...
>thus caught in your own logical trap.   The whole concept is inane

Spoeaking of logical traps, isn't this called "begging the question?" It
 attempts
(unsuccessfully) to equate feminists with nazis, et.al.

-abh
letting out the bated breath now, it sounds like a Bronx Cheer aimed in gubert's
general direction
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Neo-nazi punk was only one of the examples of "out groups" to which
attributions could not be made without membership;  If I wanted to talk
about femNazis, I would do so directly.  You're beginning ot sound like
one of them "fuzzy headed liberals" that tries to squirm off the hook
by redefining the issue to attack the person, not the argument.

So there -- besides, I've been through 6 class V Hurricanes;
one little BC will hardly be noticed.

JAG
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Modems excite me....
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 20:58:56 GMT
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Karen Kay) writes:
> I finally bought a new modem; 2400 baud instead of 1200.

> My questions: 1) I can't watch tv and dial in any more.  There's so
> much intereference from the modem.:(  What can I do?

A modem, especially a low-speed one, causing interference at TV
frequencies?  Unusual.  How far away is the TV?  Unless your modem
suffers from some quirky manufacturing defect and you can easily
exchange it you won't be able to stop it from spewing out radio noise
easily.  I think the FCC would like to talk to the manufacturer of
your modem...

> 2) I want to use procomm instead of the funky program that came w/ the
> modem, so I sweated for hours over the damned modem settings.  But, I
> still can't connect through procomm's dialing directory, I have to
> type out the phone # in what they call the command mode.  Why?  The
> modem settings and phone # are the same for both.  I'd be satisfied w/
> Brute Force Mode, but that isn't how it's supposed to work...

What do you mean by "can't connect"?  Does procomm refuse to try to dial?
Does your modem ignore procomm?  Or, after the call has been made and
you hear that satisfying whistling does the modem or procomm not realize
that it has succeeded?

(My first guess if the latter is the case is that the modem is returning
numeric instead of verbose form result codes.)

--karsten

Whistle while you work...
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:24:21 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: The Evidence
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Posted on 20 Aug 1992 at 21:02:05 by Entropy Warrior
> >Podunk, Texas.  At the moment the hunt is on for a missing

Didn't we do this once? Podunk is in New York, not in Texas.
Not far from Ithaca.

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:02:20 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Republican convention
              19 Aug 1992 09:54:46 EDT from <GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

"non-males"!  Are women to be called that?!? Is that another way to
refer to women strictly from a male viewpoint?  We have our own term,
female, thank you.  And, yes, for the most part, the female half of the
political couple is often smarter than the male half.

<Flame mode off>

Evelyn
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