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dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister) writes:

>If your bbs phone line is busy, people assume that someone else is using
>it.

We will either short the lines or place a ~600 ohm resistor across
the line.  The worst that can happen is that an alarm will go off
at the telco that there MIGHT be a problem on a line/trunk.  They'll
then kill it and when we un-short the line, there's no dialtone.  A
call to repair and everything's back to normal.  It sometimes takes
a few days to have the line taken out of service.

>If your bbs doesn't answer the phone, sooner or later, someone will
>ring your voice line and tell you it's broken.

Jeez!  They do this even when the lines ARE in service.  "Hey, I know
it's late, but can you tell me why I'm only getting 1000cps on a
zmodem download?"  "I hit ctrl-z to get out of nn and now I have
a "suspended job" and can't log out." :-/
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