Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: Miguel_Cruz@ub.cc.umich.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Call Forwarding Fluke in My Office? Message-ID: Date: 26 Aug 89 00:58:34 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 23 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 325, message 6 of 10 I recently got call forwarding on one of my home lines. Naturally, I've been playing with it incessantly. One day, I forwarded calls from my office phone to my home phone, as I often do. Now having forwarding at home, I decided to see what would happen if I then forwarded my home calls back to my office. A busy signal, I predicted. But when I went to another phone and called my number, I heard a loud click. Then 2 seconds later, another click. 2 second later, another. Each time, a little quieter. Finally, after about 10 or 12 of them, they were too quiet to hear anymore. I listened for a couple minutes, but nothing much else happened. Should I assume that some piece of equipment was actually dumb enough to keep bouncing the calls back and forth, ad infinitum? If I could tie up two lines every two seconds that way, it seems like some idiot could clog up an entire CO in a couple of hours. -- Another thing.. recently, the phone (I'm in 313) has started to allow me to prefix local calls with 1+. What am I to assume from this? -- Miguel_Cruz@ub.cc.umich.edu