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- From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
- Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:56:48 GMT
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- In article <1jmjkbINNp9o@phakt.usc.edu> hho@phakt.usc.edu (** N.T.K.C.D. ***) writes:
- |Instead of taking the phone off the hook during news/batch etc.
- |Is it possible to run something TSR and answer the phone. It will
- |print out a message "System is busy, please call back in a few minutes.."
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- If you have long distance callers, or long distance UUCP connections, this
- is an expensive way to do it -- it'll cause a completed call to get no
- more information than a busy signal provides.
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- Bill
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