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PRoToCoL wrote on 18. April 2005:
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> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:15:59 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach
> <ankman@email.com> wrote:
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>>>>Finished downloading! It did not use my full bandwidth though, maybe
>>>>Westerner got slow connection?
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>>> I'm on a 9600 modem...are you faster than that then?
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>>Awesome.
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> I knew people would be impressed and jealous
>
>> Europeans usually have acustic copplers (?sp.).
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> It's something they put in the water over here
He he. Yes, I sent this twice, thought this one would have not been sent
and I did a spell check and resent. But it sent both. :-(
Bloody Linux. ;-)
>>If you fart
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> Doesn't everyone ?
Depends on the volume. And if you are near the coupler.
> Apart from our Queen of course...she has someone to do it for her
Prince Charles.
>>then
>>some data have errors and will have to be resent, which takes some
>>time. Same if you drink beer while a transfer, since you have to burp
>>alot, and fart.
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> Woah...you've lost me there.....much too technical for me to follow
It's the Beer-in-tummy-fart-out over acoustic coupler PRoToCoL, mentioned
in RFC 98726.
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