!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    !The permanent grex number is 761-3000!
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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(hmmm... guess if you're reading this you already knew it, eh?)

Yep.  Are there numbers for the other lines?  Since the lines other
than tty02 are virtually useless to me, I'd like to be able to dial 
directly to it.

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Marcus knows, as well as Fred 'cause I told them.  Not sure about the
others.  Well, Misti should know from Marcus.

I see all, know all.

I sent mail out to my copy of the split mailing list.  Don't think
katie or polygon would know though.

I take it back.  Katie obviously knows.

I got Marcus's e-mail.

I got two pieces of mail on M-Net telling me the number (remmers and
popcorn maybe?).  Unfortunately, I lost carrier before I wrote it
down, and couldn't get back on.  Fortunately, I was able to remember
it correctly.

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My terminal program is Procomm.  Why do you ask?

(Visions of those old New York Life ads where someone who is headed visibly
and unknowingly into some sort of catastrophe says "My insurance company?
New York Life, of course.  Why?")

Re #3: It is/was the only line that I could call in on that didn't drop
carrier on me.  Today tty02 also seems to be dropping carrier, but I've
been on tty03 for a while and am still here.  Hmmmm...  I'm also using 
Procomm.  I don't see why that would cause my modem to drop carrier,
however.  I know Mary also uses it.  Have you been having this problem at
all, Mary?

I use the old decrepit procomm, but I've never been knocked off (despite
line noise that was coming faster than I could re-draw the screen...)

The other day I got knocked off of M-Net, but no problem here so far ...

Mike, I am using ProComm Plus with the setting at E71, 2400 baud.
I have had zero problem with lost carrier.  But then I live a clean
life and my Karma is kept in good working order at all times. ;-)

Actually, this probably isn't very amusing to be on the disconnected
end.  John is here at the moment and I'll pass along his suggestion:
try logging in at 1200 baud and see what happens.  It may help you 
narrow down where the problem lies.

Heh, I've thought of that too (logging in at 1200), and so far so good.

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Re 18.  I received the number via email and had it in my mbox for later
retrieval.  I then went on to the conferences, and had been reading for a
while when I was knocked offline somehow and was unable to relogon.

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you wanna know what's cool??  here we don't hafta dial a number to get onto the
system!  <sorry to rub it in like so>

Good grief, this item is ancient!  Actually, when it was posted, the
internet connection was a long way from reality.

It still seems "unreal" to me, somehow...

I still love the name you're using here, Fester Bestertester.  I almost 
fall over laughing every time I read it.  
.\

I should give credit where credit is due and note that the name is a
Don Martin invention.  Glad you like it.

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Yep, that Don Martin.

<nephi falls over laughing, again>

WOW!!!i'm the first one in here in over a year

Yep. Now let's see if you're the *last* one in here in over
a year.

Oops, I guess you're not...

Well, I'm the last one here in under a year

When posting a test message (in the test conference), one always has to
ask ones self what to enter.  "This is a test" seems to trite and
uninteresting.  I would much prefer to enter something original and
uninteresting.  (You want to look at interesting stuff?  Then why are
you in the test cf?)  The thing I'm specifically trying out is the
backtalk interface and how it reacts to typing lots of text without once
hitting return.

Well, maybe I'll hit return once.
OK, twice.
      You get the idea?

Watch the years go by.

The Test Conference is a time capsule that never closes.

I like the metaphor, but doesn't the word capsule implied a closedness?
Look at the drugs... err... medicine capsules.  They're sealed tight.

It tends to imply it, yes, but now we have a counterexample.

Proof by contradiction is the easiest way to show something's wrong

But what if the proof by contradiction is itself wrong?

If the proof is wrong then it's a bad proof whether it's a proof by
contradiction or not.

- Backtalk version 1.3.30 - Copyright 1996-2006, Jan Wolter and Steve Weiss