Assuming they are foolish is itself foolish. For many getting a fast connect
is more important than waiting for the modems to find a clear channel through
the telco. In many areas lines are bad enough it may never happen. And if
the lines are that clear in the first place, the modems do it automatically.
And, again, dialout is done by a very small fraction of our users. The vast,
overwhelming majority are ISPs and corporate sites handling dialin users.
Or using ports for twoway, so they have to handle dialin. The default modem
strings are set for them.
And of the fraction doing just dialout on a line, only a fraction of those
users would want to lock &M5.
It is a specialized case, and that is why you can set your own modem strings.
-MZ
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