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- From: tommy@superlink.net (Tom Snyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Lightening protection
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:04:26 GMT
- Organization: SuperNet Inc. (908) 828-8988
- Message-ID: <315ade80.9883973@news.superlink.net>
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- Turgut Kalfaoglu <TURGUT%TREARN.BITNET@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU> wrote:
-
- >Now that I bought expensive modems for my BBS, I want to make sure nothing
- >happens to them :) How can one protect a couple of USR Courrier's
- >"relatively cheaply" ? I need some sort of phone line surge suppressors
- >I guess; that would enable me to sleep thru stormy nights..
-
- Oh, I was in your shoes for many years. The truth is that it will be
- impossible for you to sleep through a stormy night. The best answer is
- to pull all the phone and power plugs from your BBS and sit and wait for
- the storm to pass before you plug everything back in again.
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- Tom Snyder
- (No, not the television talkshow host)
- tsnyder@eclipse.net tommy@superlink.net
- -- Every thought's a possibility --
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