E-mail from a pay phone

If you were one of the 18 people who received e-mail from me timed at 23:30 on 23/11/2002 (UK time) then it came via a Sprint pay phone at Las Vegas airport. Heading for the gate for a flight to Phoenix, I just happened to spot that a Sprint public pay phone had an Ethernet port on the side. Which is not to claim I am eagle-eyed: an American Comdex visitor had a boat-anchor of a notebook PC attached to it at the time. Said American kindly let me use his CAT5 cable (mine was in the hold), so I plugged into the power socket and Ethernet, got an IP address, dropped in a quarter and did an e-mail synch. Actually I dropped in two quarters, since the price was 25c per minute, but as no PRs had sent me any huge attachments, one would have done. Ethernet-to-payphone is a great idea and something I will look for in future. The whole episode took me back almost 20 years to the days when I regularly used pay phones to send e-mail, though at that time it was via a 300 baud (300bps) acoustic coupler....