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Re: backup ISP if you don't have a landline phone

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From: David W. Tamkin
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:57
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kristian.zoerhoff@gmail.com wrote in
<slrn3vfsj5ajs2.h7p.kristian.zoerhoff@faeroes.freeshell.org>:

| On 2011-08-24, David W. Tamkin <nobody@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

| > In other words, unless another reason to buy a laptop arises in my life,
| > keep the second landline, even if the other reasons we have it are no
| > longer in force.

| If you're truly freaked about losing connectivity for any length of time, 
| yes. 

Thank you.  As you and Smr and Bruce have indicated, what I was hoping for
does not exist anywhere near my price range.  That nothing exists, though, is
not why I didn't know of anything existing; the reason is that I just plain
don't know enough about the subject to have an idea of what exists and what
doesn't, so I asked.
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From: nobody@[127.0.0.1] (David W. Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: backup ISP if you don't have a landline phone
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:57:34 +0000 (UTC)
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