On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:40:08AM -0700, Harold M Hallikainen wrote:
>         Great report!  Looks like you spent a lot more time at the show than I
> did!  I also used Alta Vista Free Access while at the show.  I found that
> early in the morning you could actually dial and not get a busy signal.
> It worked pretty well then.  I even used it to telnet back to my shell
> account where I could do email using PINE (since AVFA doesn't do SMTP).
> AVFA has a clever radio ad running on how to become a millionare...  Just
> put all those $20 per month ISP payments in some sort of investment or
> savings account.
>
> Harold

I also was telnetting into a shell account for mail.
I found that, at almost any time of the day I couldn't
stay connected for more than ten minutes at a time.
I started preparing email on my notebook, and then
doing a copy and paste to my telnet window so that
I didn't have such a problem with dropped edit sessions.
Also, from about 7:00 to 12:00 pm it was virtually
impossible to get a connection, and I kept trying
all four San Jose numbers.

--Bob

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