On Sun, 25 May 1997, Randy Thompson wrote:
> [...]
> I hate these cut numbers. I never know if the guy sent 'T' for zero, or did
I
> miss a dot of 'N' for nine? I would just as soon have everyone send 5NN and
> then send the full numbers. But I see this as a trend that will keep getting
> worse before it gets better. It seems to be all the rage in Europe.
The rage also includes changing sending speeds, in the middle of a
transmission, to speed up the "obvious" parts of the exchange, making it
tougher to infer anything from the timing during marginal copy...
Big Don
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