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- From: August.Abolins%f115.n514.z17@visavis.cam.org (August Abolins)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Scheduled Events That Tak
- Message-ID: <727807473.AA00442@visavis.cam.org>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 15:37:01 GMT
- Sender: UUCP@visavis.cam.org
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- <> On 01-21-93, at approximately 8:57pm,
- <> Steve Frampton was discombobulated,
- <> and said...
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- SF>From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
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- > I used to run a BBS with a ZOOM modem with its hardware message.
- > I can program the modem to automatically connect and print out
- > a message then disconnect :-)))
-
- SF>Boy, long distance callers would sure love you, eh??! Not
- SF>recommended.
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- But you forgot to consider that it would be very easy to configure the
- modem to answer after 5 or more rings for that "rare" occasion when you
- need to take the system down, for example. Then if LD callers still
- insist to stick around, they can get the message from the modem.
-
- I think the message-from-modem is a nice "utility".
-
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- * Origin: VIS-a-VIS Communications [Ont+Que] (17:514/115.0)
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