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- From: Richard.Town@f235.n254.z2.fidonet.org (Richard Town)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Beware of USRSDL.EXE on USR's FTP site!--Is USR on crack?
- Date: 04 Mar 96 13:58:02
- Organization: Barney's Rubble
- Message-ID: <4d1_9603060110@fidouk.fidonet.org>
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- -=> Quoting Tom Snyder to All <=-
-
- TS> This is just a plain stupid way to make available a new flash code.
- TS> If I wanted a hassle in getting an upgrade I would have bought a
- TS> Sportster instead of a Courier. Having a Flash Rom was supposed to
- TS> make upgrading easy.
-
- Available in the US from the following systems. If you're
- FidoNet compatible, available for FReq too. Understand filename is:
-
- SDL0123.ZIP
- 1:109/630 BBS 703 751 2729 Alexandra, Va
- 1:153/725 BBS 604 327 7869 Vancouver, BC
- 1:124/6104 BBS 214 562 6012 McInney, Tx
-
- or try ftp//ftp.netcom.com/pub/in/indec/sd960123.zip
-
- TS> USR, stop the silliness, put the code up on your BBS and at your FTP
- TS> site. Face it, there are no such things as "export controls" for
- TS> software.
-
- It's commercial. Coz numbers of US domestic modems are turning up in
- Europe, at less than european prices.
-
- There's no "Modem Police". But if you damage the telco's gear with
- "unapproved" equipment you get done. If you damage the telco's equipment
- with "approved" gear (properly installed) you don't
-
- Line isolation components for BABT (UK) approvals are, AFAIK capable of
- withstanding 3.5kV p-p. Quite where this 2.475kV rms is meant
- to be coming from in a home computer's environment is not made clear <g>
-
- rgdZ
- Richard
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