General VOICE Meeting from 12/17/2001

<Fido2 now I why there was no transcipt for last week
<RumpleS Managed to find your way back warspite 8-)
<Rat-Salad its getting crowded in here
<warspite Yes...don't know what happened.
<RumpleS Not using Telstra are you 8-)
<warspite Not much better....One Net
<RumpleS Indeed, I think they are using the Telstra facilities.
<Fido2 off the satellite is much better
<warspite I use Telstra for my mobile phone...Big mistake. One Net go through Optus as I understand, although Telstra in W.A.
<RumpleS I don't think that Telstra has properly rcovered from their current distaster near Singapore.
<warspite That's why I'm pretty sure we go thru Optus or someone like that.
<Fido2 telstra have a better cover outside cites
<warspite True, but I think the landline has finally *finally* reached us here.
<RumpleS You must be in the middle of nowhere to have only just receieved a landline.
<warspite No... OAAT, if you used Optus, you went through Telstra. Now you can use Optus direct.
<RumpleS Hmm, looks as though we're building up a nice little aussie contingent here!
<RumpleS Ah, I see (very confusing).
<warspite Yeah...why not.
<BobStJohn Yeah .. yeah ... going in and out of consciousness ..
<Fido2 I don't thing optus landline will be here for along time
<BobStJohn Is one of those guys Mark Rogers (I *hate* "handles")
<warspite Where are you Fido2?
<RumpleS I wonder what will happen when Optus finnaly get around to selling off their assests.
<Fido2 south of brisbane
<Blackbird Bob....did you enjoy the German show....
<BobStJohn You mean WarpStock .. yeah. Very different from Warpstock Philly.
<warspite Good question...from my point of view, ever since they got on the bandwagon.......
<BobStJohn Understand .. that's a marketing guy's opinion
<warspite ..of Government Asssistance, they have not been so customer oriented anymore.
<BobStJohn The thing that interested me about Germany is the youne tork type OS/2 programmers. The US OS/2 cadre is closer to my age.
<Blackbird Sounds like they are much freindlier to os/2 in Europe...
<RumpleS I should imagine that each show had it's own feel.
<RumpleS Each driven by completely different types of people.
<MADvirc Any relation to Peter Tork?
<DSOMber1 Hello all.
<Sector It's DSOMber1
<BobStJohn Hellow man plant
<RumpleS g'day DSOMber1
<warspite Hi DS0Mberl
<Chrissy hey DSOMber1
<RumpleS The plant be here!
<mandie g'evening :)
<Chrissy hey mandie
<warspite Hi Mandie
<Sector Hi mandie