From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 19:35:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA15522 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:35:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA15499 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:35:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA05531; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:31:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601300331.UAA05531@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:31:33 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hsu@clinet.fi, hm@altona.hamburg.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601300330.OAA13049@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jan 30, 96 02:00:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > This doesn't help if your system dies from another fault (eg. locked > > > hardware). > > > > I submit that if you have this happen, you *want* a phone call. > > Yes. You probably _don't_ want several hundred. I'm sorry; I don't know the AT& command for "answer *one* call"... 8-). > No, I'm talking about lunatics that want to call you and complain that > you've just cost them $0.25 for a call that YOUR SYSTEM DIDN'T ANSWER > and THEY WANT A REFUND and did you know that THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE... etc. > > Surprisingly, if your modems don't pick up the call, these calls seem to > be far fewer. Perhaps because the abovementioned lunatics are off > complaining to the phone company. Ah. Australia. Never mind. We only have time charges here... I can see where you wouldn't want to answer. I don't think mgetty is the only "Approved By God(tm)" method of doing this, or even in the top two of the methods I'd choose for my own customers, but whatever floats your boat. Cheers, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.