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- Path: sparky!uunet!micro-c!eastwind!entropy!morpheus
- From: morpheus <morpheus@entropy.mcds.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
- Message-ID: <s56TXB1w165w@entropy.mcds.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 10:27:39 EST
- References: <930122.145433.6p6.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Organization: No Pity For The Majority!
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- russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
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- > 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.
-
- Doesn't sound likely to me - don't (normal, non-modem-owning) people still take
- the phone off the hook?
-
- Personally, I've had my modem off-hook for long time spans (96+ hours, once)
- without any problems.
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