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- From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
- Message-ID: <930122.145433.6p6.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:54:33 MST
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- Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- jgostin@eternal.chi.il.us (Jeff Gostin) writes:
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- > russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
- >
- >> the phone company may not appreciate the line actually being off-hook.
- >
- > As an aside, who the hell cares WHAT Ma Bell thinks... All they do is
- > rape you for the monthly bill (as anyone in Illinois can tell you). If I
-
- and they have the option of cutting off your line any time they feel you've
- not complied with your agreement.
-
- > want to keep my phone off the hook for 5 minutes, it's my line, and to
-
- well, no. it's not your line.
-
- > hell with Ma Bell if she don't like it! :-)
-
- (I see the smiley)
-
- for five minutes, I can't foresee a problem (realistically). for longer
- periods of, say, a half-hour and up, I can easily imagine some fabled
- network trouble indicator light coming on, and no one being pleased that
- it was just you wanting to give the world a busy signal.
-
- I don't know if these things really exist or not, myself.
-
- again, just ignoring the rings hurts no one, unless your users are clueless
- to the point of no return. even then, if they leave, you're just raising
- the average IQ of your callers...
- --
- Russell Schulz russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca ersys!rschulz Shad 86c
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