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From: William.Degnan@f39.n382.z1.fidonet.org (William Degnan)
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Subject: Re: Logistics of Setting up a Modem Hunt Group
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Date: 4 Nov 90 16:06:29 GMT
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>This seems reasonable to me.  However, experimenting with my 
>current hunt group, it seems that if I call any other number besides X, I 
>will get a busy signal or a ring for that one line only --- in other 
>words, if I call X+1 and it's busy, I will not get X+2.  Is this a 
>reasonable conclusion, or have I somehow made a mistake while testing?  

You have made a natural error while testing. It seems that you can't
test hunting from a server within the hunt group. If you call from a
line that is not part of the hunt group, it should perform as
expected.

Perhaps the designers never thought we'd want to call ourselves to
check translations?


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