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From: atman@csuchico.edu (Homeless hacker)
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Subject: Re: Modem busy message program?
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Date: 15 Mar 90 01:19:57 GMT
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In article <9230@ingr.com> fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford x8614) writes:
>
>I have a BBS that runs on a 286 machine.  I also have an Apple //e to
>support the Apple ][ areas of the BBS.  When I need to use the 286 for
>work/business/play, I would like to have a program running on the
>Apple //e that displays a message to my BBS callers indicating that
>the BBS is down for the moment.  I could just make the line appear
>busy, but I was hoping to do more than that.  I have ProTree, a BBS

I know that that sounds like a nice touch, but you might want to 
think twice about doing it if you have a lot of long distance or inter-
national callers.  Remember, there is a minimum charge for LD connects,
and a bunch of little 1-minute calls on the phone bill isn't a great way
to get repeat business for those out-of-towners.

Of course, if you are running some sort of networking software (I don't
know if ProTree supports networking) it can cause all sorts of problems.

Just a thought -- one of my LD net connects took his BBS down without
telling me, and put up a little note like this that would be displayed
to callers:

	"See?  See what one or two bad apples can do to a good BBS?
	 This system is down INDEFINITELY due to blah blah blah..."

My board spent 2 days and about 50 calls trying to get through, and I
swear I thought hard about... well, never mind.

Just my $0.02.



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