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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 20:05 GMT
- From: Bruce Sullivan <Bruce_Sullivan++LOCAL+dADR%Nordstrom_6731691@mcimail.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Apartment Security Stupidity
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- > [Moderator's Note: I am rather surprised that this system actually
- > dialed a seven-digit phone number. Most such arragements simply seize
- > the pair at some point between the CO and the tenant to (1) temporar-
- > ily disconnect the wire from the CO and (2) impose their own battery
- > and ringing current on the line. Under the system where your in-law
- (rest of message deleted....)
-
- I was relatively unfamiliar with/naive about these systems when I had
- an interesting experience a couple years ago with one which *did* dial
- a seven-digit number. I received a call at work from a rather confused
- person who was standing at the front door of an apartment building
- about three miles away. Seems they'd punched in the access code for
- their friends' apartment and got me instead. I suppose the building
- management must have had a finger check when the input the number. I
- got the tenants phone number & actually tried to transfer the call to
- them. Couldn't do that for some reason, but I did call her up and say,
- "This is Bruce at such-and-so company. Bob is waiting for you at the
- front door and you should let your manager know that there's a
- problem."
-
- Frankly, 'Bob' and the tenant took it in stride. I think *I* was a bit
- more taken aback at the time than they were. I was unfamiliar with the
- workings of these systems. Since then, I've lived in a number of
- buildings which had similar systems -- all of which required the use
- of my phone *and* seven-digit number (and, subsequently, call-waiting).
-
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