[plug] Linux support for schools

[Jason Nicholls]

Hiya,

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:53:45PM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Bret Busby wrote:
> 
> > I would expect that a semi-permanent connection, if terminated (other
> > than for non-payment, or, otherwise cancelling or supsending the
> > contract), would be permitted to be re-established immediately.
> > 
> > Perhaps Matt, or someone similar, could clarify this?
> 
> I thought he was more referring to Telstra being annoyed at connections
> being redialed every second, therefore unnecessarily tying up lines.

There was (I don't know about now) rules about how quickly you could redial a
modem if the called number was busy. The timing sucked pretty bad, something 
like wait x seconds between the first 3 attempts, then wait 10x seconds
between further attempts.


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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