***BOGO*** Re: spam increasing in mozilla.* newsgroups

[Daniel <dxmm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T wrote:
> squaredancer wrote:
>> On 26.08.2008 11:38, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Daniel to 
>> generate the following:? :
>>> 1PW wrote:
>>>  
>>>> On 08/23/2008 05:01 PM, Daniel sent:
>>>>
>>>> Snip, snip...
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Snip Snip
>>>
>>>  
>>>>  I remember the
>>>> painful downloads, and call disconnects, while on dial-up.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> This is where I am at the moment, fortunately, we've been getting 
>>> some rain recently, so the 'phone line is fairly reliable!
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>   
>>
>> huh??? Daniel, do you still transmit your messages up-and-down the 
>> river (which is only shipable after a rainfall) on the mailboat ??
>>
>> reg
>>
> I think what he is referring to is that:
> 
> 1. he is still using POTS (Dial up)
> 2. when the ground get so dry the stake in the ground for ground 
> connection no longer makes a good connection and cause signal drop out 
> and Static in the Phone.
> 

Spot on, Phillip.

> For a copper grounding rod to work as it should The earth should have 
> enough moisture in the it to make a good connection. If its Bone dry, 
> the rod can become loose and the dried earth would actually act like an 
> insulator.
> 
> In my area we are about 10-12 " below what we should be for the year and 
> have went through this cycle for about 5 years or so.
> 
> For years in our area all grounds were to be to cold water line because 
> either Cast iron. Galvanized, steel, or coper line were buried and went 
> all the way to the main supply which was some type of iron pipe. But 
> lately everything has changed to PVC pipe for mains and connections in 
> house. Now since there is no longer any deep buried metal Pipes, they 
> had to switch to 8 foot long solid Copper Rod drove 7 -1/2 in the Ground 
> as ground return. So now you get the problem of static in phone lines or 
> Blinking Lights and the possibility of even if properly grounded getting 
> shocked. When your going through a Drought.
> 
> 

I can remember, late 70's, early 80's, at the Army camp I worked at, all 
the outside calls came into the communications control desk. If the call 
was for another extension, we would press a button on the control panel, 
butting the caller on hold, dial the extension, then hang up and the 
caller would be connected to the extension.

In our long, dry summers, the soil would dry out, the earth connection 
became high resistance, so the pressing the button bit didn't work and 
we had to grab a pan of water and go outside and pour the water on the 
earth stake. Then try again to transfer the call, usually successfully.

Ahhh!!! the good old days!

Daniel
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