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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).

-- 
Randall J. Reid           Internet: randall@proteus.qc.ca | randall@tpg.org
Le Groupe Proteus         Uucp: uunet!proteus!randall
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