[geeks] Web based mail client for linux?

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:13:14PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > Didn't read my sig?
> 
> Best not buy any Pentium processors, PowerBooks, cars with antilock
> brake systems, Cisco routers/switches, Linksys wireless kit, Motorola
> phones, DVDs, CDs, or Intel Ethernet cards, either.  Also, you might not
> want to place any calls to Canada, use residential Internet service from
> Comcast or Earthlink, have investments through Fidelity, or do business
> with anyone who leases time on an IBM mainframe, as Intel, Motorola,
> Cisco, Linksys, Philips, IBM, Fidelity, Comcast, Earthlink and Bell
> Canada also have vested interests in BPL.

The difference is that so far, every test of BPL has shown it to cause
both unacceptable interference and poor performance. Google along
with two other companies invested $100,000,000 in BPL. With an investment
like that, you can afford a lot of failed tests, uneconomical operation
and lobbyists.

If everyone who benefits from HF radio communications would boycott Google,
they would drop their investment and it would send a message to the
other companies to stop it or improve it to the point where it really
does not cause interference.

For example Motorola has a working BPL system and the electric company
here has laid fibre along all of their high voltage wires. They only need
to use a short range system similar to WiFi from the pole to your home.

If you aren't a ham, or don't listen to shortwave or use a CB, or watch
TV channels 2-6, don't think you will not be affected. If you use a 
national park, live outside a large city and have a police or fire
department, would like the protection of your state police or assitance
from any emergency services agency or NGO (Red Cross, Salvation Army),
etc during a disaster, by supporting Google, you are preventing
them from communicating more than a few miles.

You can't rationalize it by saying that if there is a disaster, the power
lines will be down, depending upon the time of day, sunspot activity,
etc, a BPL signal from anywhere in the world could wipe out communications
where you are.

Considering what has happend in the U.S. recently, are you willing to
put your life and the lives of your family in danger so that someone can
make money selling bad technology?

Geoff.

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You should have boycotted Google while you could, now Google supported
BPL is in action. Time is running out on worldwide radio communication.