Subj : Re: Seriously?
To   : Poindexter Fortran
From : Michael Selhof
Date : Thu Mar 28 2024 09:43:58

On 02.03.2024 10:23, Poindexter Fortran wrote to Paulie420:

-> @TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48
-> @TZUTC: -0800
-> @MSGID: 25:1/104 5a048d70
-> -=> paulie420 wrote to Phigan <=-
-> 
->  pa> Maybe a funnier question is - does any sysop remember taking the 
phone
->  pa> off the hook on node(s) so the BBS seemed more l33t than it was??? 
:P
-> 
-> No, but I do remember 1991-1992, before I got my first offline reader
-> door. People would hang on for the whole 30 minutes, and as soon as the
-> person disconnected and the modem reset, I'd see RING come up on the 
WFC
-> screen. As soon as I loaded a BlueWave door, the amount of time the BBS
-> was busy dropped precipitously.
-> 
-> Then came 1996, and the calls fell off a cliff...
-> 
-> 
-> ... Walk without rhythm and you won't attact the worm.
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But anyway...

I loved that time of busy modem- and ISDN-Lines on a BBS!

But that's not the reason why a sysop simply sets his modem to busy 
without a caller!

Mike

 
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