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- From: lance@Circle.Raleigh.NC.US (Lance A. Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
- Message-ID: <s5FTXB1w165w@circle.raleigh.nc.us>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 06:06:03 GMT
- References: <FmmPXB1w165w@1776.COM>
- Organization: The Full Circle BBS, Raleigh NC - DOS/Waffle 1.65
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- bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
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- > 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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- What about the new people in town who have just gotten a local BBS listing
- off of the one board they already know about and are trolling around
- looking at the local BBS scene.
-
- An unanswered non-busy phone would make me not call again; especially if
- the BBS list is not very current.
-
- Lance
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