Replying to a message of mark lewis to Crystal Walters:   
      
    KW>> it's time to call some BBSes while there are still dialups left!   
      
    CW>> There are still dialups left?? <_<  0_o   >_>   
      
    ml> absolutely! it is how fidonet stays connected when the internet get   
    ml> broken... landlines are also still in use in many places because it   
    ml> doesn't take much for a storm to knock out cell towers and internet   
    ml> comms but POTS lines just keep going and going and going... not to   
    ml> mention that copper is much easier to splice back together than fiber   
    ml> ;)   
      
   In tis area the phone cables are buried.  In my walking the dogs around the   
   block   
   (a 4 mile trip) I discovered that the county had exposed - and broken - a   
   many-pair   
   phone cable, Qwest had apparently relocated the line and just left the old   
   cable in place.   
   I have a couple of hundred feet of it (g).   
      
   --- FleetStreet 1.19+   
    * Origin: Bob's Boneyard, Emerson, Iowa (1:300/3)