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In article <e1YfFFA2l1Q0EwYk@peaksys.demon.co.uk>
           roger@peaksys.demon.co.uk "Roger Barker" writes:

> Seeing as you are:-
> 
> >Clive D.W. Feather     | Work:  <clive@demon.net>  | Tel: +44 181 371 1138
> >Director of            | Home:  <clive@davros.org> | Fax: +44 181 371 1037
> >  Software Development |
> >Demon Internet Ltd.    |
> 
> and your postings are from clive@demon.net as opposed to clive@davros.org, how
> exactly do we tell which is official and which is unofficial comment? Seeing as
> you are clearly fighting Demon's case, surely we must assume that all your
> comments are official? The idea of the director of a company, giving comment in
> a newsgroup dedicated to service issues of that company, and people not
> assuming that those comments are official, is a very strange one.

Oh dear, you really *should* familiarize yourself with the relevant FAQs
before starting to dig holes.  UNLESS a posting specifically says that it
is being made in an official capacity, ANYTHING posted by a Demon
employee, of whatever status, is UNOFFICIAL.  The one exception to this
is announcements posted to demon.announce (and to the related mailing
list), in which Malcolm et alia make official postings.

This is in the FAQs, and is the right approach (IMO).  Unless you are
prepared to accept this state of affairs, then a future hovers in which
NOONE from Demon will post unless and until the content has been fully
checked as "officially releasable", which would be a great loss to those
of us who can understand the difference.  

Getting back to your whinge about the 3400, I would conjecture that
*some* of Motorola's product *is* within spec, and possibly that *all* of
it was AT THE TIME OF SALE.  However, making modems down to a price
invites poor QA and component specification, leading in turn to drifting
away from the proper V.34 specification; you only become aware of this
when you start connecting with something that's more accurate about how
much out-of-spec it's prepared to accept.

Have any of you moaners tried whinging to Motorola and/or the dealers
from which you purchased these defective equipments?  Thought not.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
   "Where do you want to go today?", ask M$.  According to their TV adverts:
          "confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis...", which means:
                   "the damned and accused are convicted to flames of Hell"!