Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!jlilien From: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Long Distance Circuits Message-ID: <844@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 14:46:04 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.844 Posted: Thu Feb 16 14:46:04 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 04:30:31 EST Reply-To: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 22 Whose Brilliant idea was it to make the long distance phone circuits the effective equivalence of half-duplex, anyway?!? Do they really think that phone conversations only have one person talking at a time? I sure don't. When I get to talking with my old friends in Boston, we get to laughing and remembering the good old days. And beleive me, I don't want to not here what my friend is saying, just because I'm laughing too loud and having a good time that I accidently trigger some circuit to cut off his voice. Beleive me this pisses me off. I pay good money to a large company that advertises its long distance calls sound like there coming from next door. They may be better than all of the competition, but the calls don't sound like they come from next door--the next planet maybe. While I'm flaming on the subject, what about calls where the first consonant sound of every word is chopped off. #ould #ou imagine ##at #at #ould #ound #ike? #ard #oo understand, #o? And how about cross-modulated calls? I don't want to hear someone elses conversation, and I don't want anyone to hear mine. If they are going to charge me that much money and make such grossly ridiculous advertising claims, they should provide me a mechanism to reclaim my charges when the service doesn't meet my quality expectations. Joel (hotter than ever)