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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: Telco Hassles
Message-ID: <848@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 07:05:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 07:05:18 1985
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	>I recently got a telephone bill for one of our dial-outs (a 202c
	>compatible) that came to over $1000. Most of that was for a 26 hour
	>call and a 20 hour call, plus some other shorter long calls.
	>Nothing was changed in our system.
	>What I'm leading up to is: Does anyone have any good advice on
	>how to handle the phone company? They were nice but basically said,
	>"So What!! Pay up!", and I am not convinced the error is not theirs.
Absolutely? We've had this problem long, long ago: transatlantic links lasting
for hours.... It turned out uucico was the culprit, hanging indefinitely on
noisy lines. Check that your uucico doesn't do the same (pk1.c: routine
pkgetpack() should have a "noise count", not looking indefinitely for a
SYN char).

-- 
	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
	(piet@mcvax.UUCP)