Well, Ken, you know what they say: Different strokes for different folks. Some people actually *live* "in the woods", and have telephones and sometimes even broadband. Some people run servers from "the woods" entirely off-the-grid.
At the Oregon Country Fair, where I represent our user's group, we have had 802.11b wifi coverage across the entire site for years, connected to a satellite uplink that is roughly megabit. Most of the Fair Family shares your satirical sentiments, but many folks truly appreciate the ability to be connected, like those boothies who do business online, and some others of us who spend a lot of work and play time online also. I don't know eactly what you mean by "communing with Natue": to some this means urinating or defecating, to others it means ingesting halluciogens; it could also mean taking a nice walk on a path, or driving up the paved mountain road in their SUV (possibly with a DVD playing for little Johnny). Since Per was speaking of mountaineering, it sounds like a superb idea to have some chance of communication in case of emergency! Go read about rescue teams' changes over the past years, the proliferation of cellphones and some new coverage into rural areas has made their job a whole lot easier. IIRC, they can even track a cellphone that is out-of-range but trying to connect, by its own signal (as opposed to central network-based tracking). And since you want to play the sarcasm game, I'll offer that I post to this list to get away from civilization :)) cheerio and smiles to y'all, Ben On Tue, 25 May 2004 13:24:30 -0700 Ken Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tuesday 25 May 2004 08:57, perdurabo wrote: | | > It's not a good mountaineering phone, as evidenced by the | > fingernails-on-chalkboard screeching that occurs whenever I | > open the keyboard swivel now, due to the fine volcanic powder | > of the Cascades. | | And while you're communing with Nature in the woods, don't forget | to bring along your TV set. And your microwave oven. | | Sheesh. Taking a phone into the woods. <shaking head> I go | there to get away from all of that stuff. | | Ken _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
