[Groop] Re: Top Posters of 2004 (late)

[Eric Chun]

gary wrote:
>My motem blew up last night.

modem = mo(dulator) + dem(odulator)

A device for transmitting usually digital data over telephone wires by
modulating the data into an audio signal to send it and demodulating
an audio signal into data to receive it.

>OK, now wait just a minute!  How could I be the top poster again?

perhaps we should cut out counting the number of posts.  instead
of having a positive effect (as intended), it seems to have a negative
effect.