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Re: Busy Connect

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Wed Jan 27 22:06:15 1999

From: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>
To: twiggy@twiggy.spider.org (Cyril Jaouich)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:49:35 -0600 (CST)
Cc: wsimpson@greendragon.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990127194756.472o-100000@twiggy.spider.org> from "Cyril Jaouich" at Jan 27, 99 07:50:39 pm

Cyril Jaouich wrote:

> 	We've had the same up here in Canada for a while now, very
> annoying for customers. Anyhow, if you do *02 (Bell here uses DMS), it
> disables it forever (we'll until you do *02 again). We've actually put
> that message on our TechSupport quick tips music when you call in to
> report a problem... Why does technology have to be so annoying sometimes
> :)

It's not the technology that's annoying, it's the suits who think it's
OK to change the way things work, at our loss, so they can make a buck.

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