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To: CDMQ who wrote (11790)	6/25/1998 12:44:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

CDMQ, while I normally restrict myself to purely technical posts in an attempt to enlighten others on technology developments, I will on rare occasions help out in the area of internet etiquette. Thus: <ggg> means lots of laughs (as in grins, 3 of the little fellers). <bseg> is really not suitable for translation on a family thread and I have already sent an e-mail of censure to Jim (Florid) Frost for his transgression. As you may have noticed, the Florid One has been on steroids the past few days with an avalanche of posts, so we may assume that his internal chemistry was thrown out of whack leading to this faux pas. Hint: Big S*it Eating Grin. Now, me wanting to know why Ma Bell just tossed $48B to get wired pipes in to my house. Mr. Armstrong came from Hughes and is said to know satellites backwards and forwards. Why wouldn't he go the wireless route to circumvent the Baby Bells and let me make local calls using the Q's WLL product? Or Globalstar? Or Winstar? There are lots of ways around the Baby's stranglehold on local calling, and it would seem that any of them could be had for less than $48 big ones. But Mr. Armstrong is said to be one smart feller--who's got the answer to this puzzle? Mike Doyle