From mhoye@prince.carleton.ca Mon Apr 30 11:50:35 2001 Date: 27 Mar 2001 00:51:54 GMT From: Michael Hoye Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: Doomed-to-Eternal-Perdition DSL (was Re: TAN: The filthy, corrupt, wastrel DSL industry) In article <6dio99.7ou.ln@muse.klio.org>, Mike Kozlowski wrote: >In article , >Erica Sadun wrote: [reckless trimming] >>DSL line just went dead. > >You know what? This is what it must have felt like to be sitting around >when the Romans pulled out and the barbarians invaded. A sure and certain >knowledge that you've just fallen outside the bounds of civilization, and >that doom is imminent. Ugh. Your 56k bitsurfer is unlikely to club you to death, rape your women, burn your house down and make off with your cattle. In anything other than a metaphorical sense, of course. -- Mike Hoye