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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 08:46:26 PST
- From: Phillip Remaker <remaker@cisco.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Music on Hold
- Message-ID: <telecom12.842.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 842, Message 6 of 14
- Lines: 40
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- > I came home recently to find a strange message on my answering
- > machine: Several minutes of music. There was no voiceover anywhere in
- > the message, or before or after it -- just music. The sound was of
- > surprisingly good quality; I'm quite sure we're talking about a direct
- > electrical connection, not pickup by a handset of music playing in the
- > background.
-
- > Nothing like this has happened before or since.
-
- > Any guesses?
-
- > [Moderator's Note: My guess is someone was playing games. They called
- > your machine and let it rack up a long 'message' by simply playing
- > music for however long it lasted before the machine clicked off. PAT]
-
- PAT:
-
- This is a classic:
-
- Using a POTS line on a PBX:
-
- PBX user calls some place and is put on hold.
- PBX user gives up, hangs up and plcaes another call.
- User does not hold switchook long enough to disconnect, unwittingly
- puts the music on hold 'on hold'.
- PBX user calls you, gets your answering machine, hangs up.
- The music on hold is 'transferred' to your machine.
-
- Two machines are now locked on to each other. If your answerphone is
- VOX activated, kiss your tape goodbye.
-
- Anyway, using that scheme (thinking you hung up when you really
- didn't), you can imagine how strange stuff gets on your answerphone.
-
-
- Phillip A. Remaker remaker@cisco.com
- cisco Systems Customer Engineering 800-553-24HR
- 1525 O'Brien Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025
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