>  BM> It has been years since I've logged on to a BBS.  I had to shut my own
 >  BM> down when I discovered it was kicking callers off, and I didn't know
 >  BM> why.

 >   Hmmm. Well why does any bbs do that? A dropped
 > carrier? Something
 > about that I think.. I'm basing this guess on what a
 > sysop told me
 > when we users were getting booted off while playing
 > our games. he said
 > one of the nodes was unstable.

Oh, I'm sure there are lots of reasons.  I happened to be sitting looking
at the screen, some time after I had noticed no new calls in the logs, and
I watched as a call came in. The prompt for the caller's name came up, I
think, then the whole thing popped out and reset itself, before anything
could be sent to the log.  I think it was a maladjustment in the program
itself that had crept in, or perhaps corruption.

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