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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 12 Aug 1992 00:28:35 -0500
- From: mar6019@tamsun.tamu.edu (Marc Randolph)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Answering Machine Ringbacks
- Message-ID: <telecom12.624.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 624, Message 4 of 12
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- In article <telecom12.567.4@eecs.nwu.edu> glowacki@calshp.cals.wisc.edu writes:
-
- > Two stories came to me tonight about answering machines and strange
- > hehavior on the network. Both involved puzzling ringing either on
- [...First story deleted]
-
- > The second story involves a Centrex system at the university. My
- > friend from the airport reported that in his office, he or his office
- > mate would call someone and get their answering machine. If they hung
- > up before the OGM was finished, the phone would ring soon to give them
- > the answering machine and the last of the outgoing message. He offered
- > this as a clue to the last mystery. It seemed to me to be unrelated,
- > but it might be.
-
- > I think that's plausible, but I want to know what the readers of
- > TELECOM Digest think about this mystery. What could or should explain
- > the things we've observed?
-
- I've seen this type of thing before. I think it is caused by call
- waiting. Here on campus, I've called an answering machine before, and
- then hung up. The phone rings and the answering machine is still on
- the other end. I think I narrowed it down to the way that I hung up
- the phone. If I flashed hook (my hook is in the handset) and then
- hung up the phone, it would call me back. Otherwise it hung up just
- fine. Flashing the hook before hanging it up makes the switch think
- I'm placing the answer machine on hold and making a second call.
-
- Anybody else have weird ringing stories?
-
-