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From: Jim.Redelfs@iugate.unomaha.edu (Jim Redelfs)
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Subject: Re: More on BBSs and Phone Rates
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Date: 12 Jan 91 09:00:56 GMT
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> If every BBS on any given switch shut down for one day there would be
> no management meeting to decide what happened and why the switch
> reports were off-normal.

> Compare that to, say, if no teenagers were allowed to use the phone
> for a single day, or if no ladies were allowed to call their mother on
> a given day!

Amen to that!  I can always tell when the kids have gotten home from
school.  Our "clattering antique" (Western Electric 2B ESS) just
percolates!  Pretty quite, otherwise.


JR

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