[pure-silver] Re: TESTING; no posts
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bogdan Karasek" <bkarasek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 9:20 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: TESTING; no posts



Hi Bob,
I empathize with you. I get the same when all of a sudden there is no mail from any of the lists I belong to. And I don't rely on my e-mail and the Internet for business. I can understand that when your business is tied in to a supposedly functioning server and there are no messages that you would get anxious about your server and whether it is up and still running.
If we joke about it, it is not to belittle your plight. WE understand your problem but I never realized that it was that expensive.
Thanks for reminding us that we are indeed privileged to have the services we have at the prices that we have them. I think that we sometimes take it for granted and assume that everybody else is in the same situation.
Anyway, when in doubt about your server, don't hesitate to ask if we are still around and if you are getting through. I'll make it a point to be responsive without the ribaldry. 

All the best,
Bogdan
Its easy to forget the revolution in communication brought about by communication satellites and the later development of wide band optical fiber. Telstar, the first communication satellite, was put into service in 1962. It revolutionized telephone service. One modern communition satellite has more bandwidth than all existing radio facilities existing at the time of the launch of Telstar. I am not sure about the total terrestrial bandwidth at the time but it was not large. Optical fiber, using modern single-mode fiber, has enormous bandwidth, greater than a satellite, and has again changed the nature of world wide communication. We are no longer starved for bandwidth as we were up to the 1960s. High priced telephone service is mostly due to taxation, the actual cost is nearly nothing. Keep in mind that until satellites international communication was nearly exclusively by radio links that were narrow, expensive, and tended to be unreliable. A phone call to Hawaii had to be carried by short-wave radio through AT&T or RCA and cost about $12 USD for a three minute call. All telephone traffic to Europe and England was similar, long-wave or short-wave radio. Submarine cable service was strictly for narrow band telegraph and printer service, no voice range cables were devised until _after_ satellites were employed. Submarine optical fiber cable is now very common to virtually all parts of the world. Most of us have spent a good deal of our lives during this revolution and its sometimes hard to remember what it was like when one had to place long distance calls through an operator, actually not so long ago in the scheme of things. 

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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