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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: Re: Trigraph's outgoing modem dies
Message-ID: <8737@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 18:29:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: utzoo.8737
Posted: Sat Oct 10 18:29:09 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Oct-87 18:29:09 EDT
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> ... This means that we must wait until our neighbours phone
> us so expect delays in receiving mail from trigraph. I notice that several
> neighbouring sites seem to have stopped phoning all together...

This isn't really a direct response, but might nevertheless be of interest.
Based on considerable experience, utzoo has a policy of occasionally polling
neighbor sites even when both sides call on demand.  The reason is to cope
with exactly this sort of problem.  (We poll trigraph daily, for example.)
We consider this a wise precaution.  Uucp runs itself so well under normal
conditions that it's easy to assume that nothing ever goes wrong; not so.
-- 
"Mir" means "peace", as in           |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"the war is over; we've won".        | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry