Subj : Funny code section To : Mike Luther From : Richard Webb Date : Tue Mar 23 2010 09:14 pm HEllo MIke, On Tue 2038-Mar-23 11:01, Mike Luther (1:117/3001) wrote to Mark Lewis: ML> Chiming in here too Mark and MvLe and all! YOur comments are right on the money. I spent a week on hospital Island in NEw ORleans during Katrina. A building across the street had one hard wired phone line, not connected to hospital switching equipment etc. in the basement which got taken out, which still worked, that one phone line. MOst critical comms to/from that hospital complex that week were taking place by radio, quite a bit of it on the ham radio we were operating. ML> Please *DO NOT* remove this from the work on MAX, BINK; Whatever. ML> To do so would be a horrible step in taking away what we *CAN* do ML> for all the world, if we continue to contribute to FidoNet as some ML> of us do still today for reasons I have shown you above. I"m with you MIke!!! ML> It is ABSOLUTELY necessary to preserve the POTS phone number access ML> and use techniques in BBS software. AS is often said, "preach it brother, preach it!" Regards, Richard --- timEd 1.10.y2k+ * Origin: Radio REscue net operations BBS (1:116/901) .