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- From: randall@proteus.qc.ca (Randall Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
- Message-ID: <w44VXB3w165w@proteus.qc.ca>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:39:07 GMT
- References: <930122.145433.6p6.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Reply-To: randall@proteus.qc.ca (Randall Reid)
- Organization: The Proteus Group, Montreal Canada
- Lines: 30
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- russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
-
- > 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
-
- Being busy for a user may be OK but for an incoming uucp call its a
- different story IMHO.
-
- I prefer my uucp sites to appear "busy" if they aren't ready to connect to
- me. The reason is that my Waffle system will respond quickly to a busy
- signal and I can get on with polling someone else. If the site doesn't
- answer, Waffle will sit there for 10+ rings waiting to time out.
-
- This amounts to a "lot" of wasted time for a system that makes around
- 200 calls/day and has 20 other uucp sites to service (like mine).
-
- --
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