RE: QList Netiquette?

["Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com>]

The size of the links across which we all communicate is measured in
some number of cycles per second, like 28800 bits (which, when
transmitted manifest themselves as cycles) per second. This is close
enough to the bandwidth you are talking about when you're talking
HAM-talk that it is commonly referred to as the *bandwidth* of the
connection.

We are all (me sometimes more than others) wasteful of the cycles with
trivia like the NASCAR pissing contest, hence the term waste or
bandwidth, or WOB.

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Ian Duff, 1990 Coupe quattro 20v, Red/Black
quattro Owners Club member P877

Home: New Bedford, MA, USA
Work: Charter Systems, Inc., West Newton, MA, USA
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>From: 	Trisha Bethen[SMTP:trishab@mv.mv.com]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, 22 October, 1996 10:27 PM
>To: 	Duff, Ian
>Cc: 	'Quattro List'; 'Dan Simoes'
>Subject: 	Re: QList Netiquette?
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>Hey, guys, what do you all mean by bandwidth?  I've been studying off and
>on for a Ham license and nowhere does the definition fit anything we do on
>the internet?  I'm confused.   That's all.  It seems like a buzz word that
>is used whenever someone gets po'd at mail they don't want to skip over.
>Just asking.....not trying to be my usual bitchy self. <G>
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