[R-390] Bandwidth

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Hey, that R1051 you put the LED's in is still running nice and bright. 
It came up here earlier today as a matter of fact !

I totally agree that either modes one or two are far to be preferred to 
mode three which is what we often get here and on a lot of other lists 
as well.

In defense of those who objected I don't think the good old I don't 
have enough bandwidth argument came up this time. It's certainly has 
come up in the past though and probably will come up again next time we 
go through all this.

I think what happened this time was that the volume of mail this list 
is capable of actually became apparent. We used to get these kind of 
daily volumes from time to time but not very often. The thing that made 
the difference this time is that we pretty much all have a lot of 
bandwidth at our disposal. I sit here with a lap top doing other stuff 
but watching what's going on. With broadband 10 megabit connections, 
being on all the time is pretty darn easy.

More or less "bandwidth made me do it ...".

	Take Care!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ


On Jul 6, 2004, at 10:34 PM, Cecil Acuff wrote:

> Barry.....as usual you crack me up!!!  What a Hoot!
>
> I think anyone that spends any time at all in the archives will also
> discover Barry's sense of humor archived there as well and not get the 
> wrong
> idea about this list....
>
> I have discovered over the last several years that this list seems to 
> have 3
> modes:
>
> 1)    Informative mode....where technical and/or historical questions 
> are
> answered in a very professional and authoritative fashion!
>
> 2)    Idle mode.....where humor and general chit-chat is enjoyed by
> most...silly?  Probably...but no different than what we would do if we 
> were
> all to show up in
>         a room together for a day to fellowship with one another over 
> a few
> beers!  (sounds like fun...we should plan that!)
>
> 3)    DEAD mode....where the heck did everybody go?