From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 26 7:49:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B3637B406 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:48:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5QEmC106018; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:48:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g5QEmCb21213; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:48:12 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5QEm9R21206; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:48:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D19D429.5A734EF7@centtech.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:48:09 -0500 From: Eric Anderson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sanjay Bhattacharya Cc: flynn@energyhq.homeip.net, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fact References: <20020625135153.M403-100000@localhost> <5.1.1.6.2.20020625121305.03d1f270@pop3s.schulte.org> <20020625120402.A7861@cygnus.wks.Gallup.cia-g.com> <00d201c21cbd$3b9ff2d0$1ba8c8cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz> <20020626122805.GA18636@energyhq.homeip.net> <008501c21d1f$d82e4d60$b46dc5cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sanjay Bhattacharya wrote: > miguel, > You want to know why MS Outlook was used to compose that message?? Well it > seems that I am not lucky and rich enough like you people from the west. And > it so happens that I am a poor guy from India with an internal modem or a > winmodem to be precise, which to my knowledge is not supported by any of the > Unices that I've worked with. I simply can't afford an external modem. Maybe > you as an expert, know better and can suggest a Linux/bsd/Solaris driver for > my winmodem. As far as Linux is concerned, I have tried some available > drivers but sadly none of them worked. Its really ironic, that making a > comment without really knowing the fact is fashionable among some people. Good points - but, you could afford a license for Windows, and not a modem? I can find modems for about $10 on ebay, and a Windows license can be $100. Not trying to piss you off any more, but I just thought it was a curious predicament. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology He who laughs last didn't get the joke. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message