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|    Shaun Buzza to g00r00    |
|    Re: polling    |
|    03 Apr 22 19:37:42    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47       MSGID: 1:229/110 1ee2c09e       REPLY: 1:129/215 a63a1881       TZUTC: -0400        g0> Agreed that this type of BUSY event would be pretty useful if you want        g0> to fully automate some things that require you to take the servers down.               g0> I was experimenting with something like this before but what I struggled        g0> with was exactly how I should handle existing connections to those        g0> servers.                g0> Handling new connections during a defined maint window shouldn't be too       g0> hard but figuring out the existing connections is a little more tricky.              Stop thinking so hard sir! (@_@)        Smoke a doob, or somethin'!              Surely, you're at least as intelligent as I am? Look again! Don't expect every       connection to occur at the same time!              Sorry, and thank you for listening.              McDoob       SysOp, PiBBS       pibbs.sytes.net              ... Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Raspberry Pi/32)        * Origin: PiBBS (1:229/110)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 129/305 330       SEEN-BY: 129/331 153/7715 218/700 226/30 227/114 229/110 206 307 317       SEEN-BY: 229/400 424 426 428 452 550 664 700 240/5832 266/512 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 292/854 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58       SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848       PATH: 229/110 426           |
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