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- From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
- Message-ID: <wk4TXB3w165w@dogbox.acme.gen.nz>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 02:32:31 +1300
- References: <FmmPXB1w165w@1776.COM>
- Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)
- Lines: 19
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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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- I tried telling my users that 'till I was blue in the face.
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- I gave up and added offhook routines to my processing batch files.
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- Now, I don't get voice calls asking me if my system's crashed, or
- have to read stuff on other local bbs's saying that my bbs is
- broken, cos it won't answer whenever someone tries to ring....
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