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From: Xocyll
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:43

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Insane Ranter <log...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

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>And we used to think that 5600 baud was "fast"... 

Pretty sure that was never a standard, so no, no one ever did.

You thinking of a 56K modem perhaps?  
Which were fast for their time.

Be thankful you weren't going online earlier in the 2400 days (or
earlier.)  56K was SCREAMINGLY fast compared to that.

Xocyll

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Subject: Re: Steam is a place...
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:43:58 -0400
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