[R-390] The politics of BPL
Don and Diana Cunningham
wb5hak at sirinet.net
Sun Jul 11 10:21:00 EDT 2004
One question in this, does anyone know if both major candidates support
BPL?? Maybe several thousand emails proporting to vote for candidate X that
doesn't support BPL (assuming X is a major candidate, hi hi) might not
hurt??
73,
Don, WB5HAK
----- Original Message -----
From: "JamesMiller" <jmiller1706 at cfl.rr.com>
To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [R-390] The politics of BPL
> Yes, so the rural farmer or Appalachian backwoods kid can also experience
> the joys of unwanted pop-up ads, spam, browser hijacks, trojans, worms,
> adware and spyware with rapid response over his noise-producing BPL
> connection, all thanks to Billy Gates and his buggy software, and the
money
> hungry telecom companies, at a subscription rate of probably $90/month.
> Sounds like progress to me !
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry O'Laughlin" <terryo at wort-fm.terracom.net>
> To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 9:48 AM
> Subject: [R-390] The politics of BPL
>
>
> > My friends in regulatory politics tell me BPL is being sold as the new
> REA,
> > Rural Electrification Authority. Bring broadband to the country
> > folk! This is especially galling because I remember my years of DXing
in
> > the country - hearing longwave stations from Europe deep in Midwest US
> > because the noise level was so low. You think we have noise now, wait
> > until BPL crisscrosses the country on those long rural lines. Talk
about
> > an antenna farm!
> >
> > Best,
> > Terry O'
> > WB9GVB
> >
> >
> >
> > At 08:40 AM 7/11/2004, you wrote:
> > >There is a BPL conferenc in Orlando this month. Interesting insight
into
> > >the mindset of BPL marketing:
> > >
> >
>
>http://www.iqpc.com/cgi-bin/templates/document.html?topic=233&event=4929&do
> cument=41137
> >
> >
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