FM> You must have been busy this morning around 8am. I think it was about
FM> the 45th attempt that I finally connected.

FM> The Spirit's busy detect is quite variable, anything from 13 to 33
FM> seconds (on those calls). So say 45 * 23 = ~17 minutes to get through.
FM> Plus manual intervention time - my Telix script only retries 9 times
FM> before giving up. Maybe 20 mins.

Alan Mouat was on between 7.20am - 7.40am, you called shortly
after he hung up.  He was doing a lot of one-off stuff FREQing
the nodelist, netmanager, msged/sq etc.  I've actually got the
time for protected sessions set to about half an hour, thanks
to someone uploading a 2 meg file here [BTW Bob, this does not
mean that all you have to do to get me to raise my limits to
2 hours is upload an 8 meg file].

BTW Alan, you can be connected to the NODEDIFF TIC area if you
want to receiving regular nodediffs.  I can connect anyone else
who wants this to that if they want.  It's one of the few TIC
areas that I get.  The other one is PDOMAIN.  BFN.  Paul.
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