Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mhuxv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!mhuxv!pdt From: pdt@mhuxv.UUCP (tyma) Newsgroups: net.dcom Subject: Re: Can autodialing "wear out" a modem? Message-ID: <127@mhuxv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 13:38:17 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxv.127 Posted: Fri Jun 15 13:38:17 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jun-84 04:10:59 EDT References: <3949@utzoo.UUCP>, <4724@amd70.UUCP>, <1919@sdccsu3.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 22 > Who Cares what the phone company thinks? That is what > we are paying totally outrageous prices for, they don't > have an opinion, you know, like hired killers. As long > as they get the money, they con't care. Maybe you figure that someone in the phone company would care about infinite-loop dialing because they just like to make up silly policies or because they are worried about equipment wearing out. Don't worry about the equipment--it's designed for continuous operation. But who loses if many people dial continuously? YOU do--your calls won't go through because the leveraged resources in the central office will be exhausted by the continued (fruitless) dialing. Maybe you'd only be trying to call Mom to chat; but then again, maybe it might be an emergency call. Don't be considerate for the phone company's sake--do it for yourself and for your neighbors. The PERSONAL opinion of Paul Tyma