802.11b antennas

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:13:06PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:17:47PM +1000, 'David Gibson' wrote:
>  
> > No, it's not - since it isn't in reply to anything.  
> 
> Probably a symptom of advancing senility,
> or possibly paranoia,
> but I assumed he _was_ replying to me personally,
> as I had written to a list -- 

But you were mistaken.  The content suggested it in you case (by
chance) but the headers don't and the fact that it went to a bunch of
people who hadn't recently posted something related doesn't.

> could have been the rl2-library list, though --
> asking exactly the question he was answering,
> namely how can I extend the range of my antenna 
> (listed as 0dB, whatever that means)
> by a couple of metres,
> so that when I sit in bed (as now) at my Vaio
> on the wrong side of a 65cm granite wall,
> it isn't like communicating with someone on Mars.
> (There was a 30sec delay before that last line came back to me.)
> 
> I did get several replies,
> but they all involved what I regard as heavy engineering,
> drilling holes in the card or else the wall, etc.
> (Soldering irons go with dentists' drills
> in my list of instruments of torture.)
> 
> Incidentally, I don't think "spam" is quite the right word
> for sending relevant advertising to a list
> which frowns on advertising.
> More like a breach of netiquette.

To the list, no I'd agree that's a breach of netiquette, but not spam .
To the list and (unsolicited) to a whole bunch of random list members,
it's spam.

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