Our population? Comp.dcom.telecom users?
Pat, you're a star!
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: No, its not the number of C.D.T. readers! I could only wish that were so. It is 'merely' the estimated population of the USA as of 7:30 AM Tuesday morning. And those same authorities claim we will reach 400+ million population in a lot less time than the 39 years it took to reach 300. As more and more Americans reach the age to begin breeding (or doing whatever nature tells them to do -- thank God there are many of us who are not 'that way') -- the stats will go topsy-turvy and we -- or rather those of you who plan on sticking around a couple more generations at least -- will find more of us in prison, and considerably more of us per mile (on average, 84 per mile now), and more of us waiting for trains and busses in the morning than at present. As for me, I expect to be gone sometime soon, and when it does happen, it won't be a minute too soon for me! But thanks for the laugh today! PAT]