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Re: Addiction to the Net
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To: [email protected] (List Geeks)
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Subject: Re: Addiction to the Net
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From: [email protected] (Lawrence *The Dreamer* Chen)
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:45:51 -0600 (MDT)
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Posted-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 09:45:51 -0600 (MDT)
According to I am TF TS THG AHMFD:
> > My beeper usually goes off for one of three main reasons.
> >
> > My home server has crashed, impacting my Email.
> > My work server has crashed, impacting my Email and the people at work.
> > The work connection to the outside world has gone down....leaving me cutoff.
>
> I wish I could make my beeper do that, but it would usually cause undo
> panick when I am not near a terminal, you know, like those car alarms that
> page you? Heh, be in the middle of a movie when it goes off, except there
> wouldn't be anything you could do about your computer from a theatre. ")
>
I used to have a phone rebooter on the system at home.....the last basement
flood took it out of action.
So, I could call in with my cellular to reboot the machine. Except I don't
have a cellular anymore. Seemed my main expense was calling my pager service
or calling myself (the phone rebooter).
Lawrence