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- From: Steve Frampton <frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
- Message-ID: <mHLqXB2w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 12:08:57 EST
- References: <FmmPXB1w165w@1776.COM>
- Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
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- Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
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- bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
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- > frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) writes:
- > >
- > > 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?
-
- Oh my. Okay, hmmm...how do I tell the new callers about this? Would you
- be willing to pay for a full page ad for my site in PC-Magazine?
-
- If so, please send a big cheque to the address below. Thanks.
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