From: fungus@amongus.com.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:42:46 -0000 (UTC)   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:16:32 -0600, Retrograde wrote:   
   >   
   > > There are other dial-up providers beside AOL.   
   >   
   > That would require you to keep a landline, though.   
   >   
   > Plus the fact that telco backhauls are increasingly based on VoIP, using   
   > the common Internet infrastructure, the irony of using that high-speed   
   > Internet to offer voice service, which is then used to offer low-speed   
   > Internet on top of that ... is ever so slightly staggering.   
      
      
   You make two very good points.  I'm happy to be free of the landline.   
   I do harbor some nostalgia for the sound of the modem connecting though.   
      
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