Subject: Re: Cribsheet to TP resources
From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Date: 1991-02-27, 16:12
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <8bnIIY200WBK01AFcE@andrew.cmu.edu> mt1z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Bruce Tomblyn) writes:
> >Just a thought here, but how about everyone flooding the ABC fax line at
> >the same time, when TP should be on Sat. night. 

This assumes you think TP *should* be on Sat. night.  Some of us,
apparently including David Lynch, think it should be on Wed. or Thu. night.

> >                                                 I realize nobody will be
> >there at the time, but if one of my Friends who is an electronics expert
> >is correct, as few as 10,000 faxes at once will completely ROAST any
> >fax.                               ^^^^^^^

Your Friend (is he a Quaker?) might have reminded you that fax machines
work by picking up the phone and printing ONE fax at a time.  There is
no way to make the machine print 10,000 (or even two) faxes "at once."

You might queue up 10,000 faxes to be printed sequentially, but given
carrier train and data transmission times, it's difficult to receive a
complete fax sheet in much less than a minute.  There are only 1,440
minutes in a whole day! and only 60 of those occur when TP "should be
on."  So it's unlikely you could get more than about 50 faxes through.
That leaves 9,950 people who spent an hour dialing the fax number and
getting nothing but busy signals.  

> >If not, Mon. morning, can you imagine the surprise on the faces of
> >those who have to pick up the faxes, all with the (relatively) same send
> >time printed?

Hard to do - see above.  Anyway, I have had people fax me 200-page
manuals overnight: it's not THAT hard to deal with the next day.  In the
case of fax harrassment I would s***can the offending material and get a
new fax number the next day, so that people with LEGITIMATE reasons to
fax me could get their work done.

The mails are there for a purpose.  Use them -- don't associate TP fans
with unnecessary rudeness in ABC's tiny corporate mind.