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Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?

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From: cutter
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 13:55
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fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
> 
> If I make the phone busy while it's processing, then it's almost a
> certainty that if it doesn't answer the phone, it's crashed, and you
> shouldn't bother attack-dialing.
> 
>   Bill

I run waffle to be an automated mail/news servant getting it so I don't have to
manual access someone else's board; but, when I used to call in, if it did not
answer on ringing I would presume it was either off line or out of order.
When it was busy was when I would "attack dial" waiting for the no-good
razzer-frazzer to hang-up so I would be the first in line.

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From: cutter@gloster.via.mind.org (cutter)
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Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
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