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- From: bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
- Message-ID: <FmmPXB1w165w@1776.COM>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 23:35:50 EST
- References: <PicoXB2w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: 1776 Enterprises, Sudbury MA
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- frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) writes:
- > bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
- > > I don't understand this entire thread. What purpose is served by taking
- > > the phone off-hook that isn't better served by simply turning off the
- > > modem's auto-answer capability?
- >
- > Image, me lad, *image*. If you want to appear as a reliable service, you
- > can't let your users think your system has crashed with a incessantly
- > ringing line (while processing news, et al) -- this is the purpose of
- > a busy signal.
-
- For God's sake. Can't you just TELL your users that at certain (or even
- random) times you take the system down for various housekeeping tasks and
- that the phone won't answer during those times? Or is it considered horse-
- shit to reveal such secrets to users?
-
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