Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?

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From: Kennelmeister
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:32

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bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:

> 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?

I tried telling my users that 'till I was blue in the face.

I gave up and added offhook routines to my processing batch files.

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....

--
                                                            => Dogbowl <=

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From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
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Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 02:32:31 +1300
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