Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Criticism of Call Forwarding Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 89 00:08:33 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 30 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 428, message 7 of 10 In article , roy%phri@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith) writes: > With all this talk about non-ergonomic rings, I thought I would > bring up another mis-feature. Our ATT System-25 at work doesn't have call > forwarding, it has what we've come to refer to as call following... ... > I can't figure out why ATT decided to do it this way. System-25 does it that way because Horizon(tm) did it that way. That, in fact, explains most of the System-25 feature set. No, I don't know exactly why Horizon did it that way, but it may be related to their "floating phone number" feature. You can have phone numbers in your Horizon or System 25 which do not correspond to real telephone sets (or voice terminals, for that matter!). If you are a fast-mover around your office, you may be without a physical set, but you can have a floating extension (called a PDC or personal dial code, in System-25 speak). You can then "log in" your floating PDC at the nearest real telephone set, and receive your calls there, until you log out or log in at some other voice terminal. Call-following is just a special case of logging in a PDC (but in this case, not a floating PDC) on a voice terminal. [I keep my floating PDC logged into the phone on the boat!] Dave Levenson Voice: (201) 647 0900 Westmark, Inc. Internet: dave@westmark.uu.net Warren, NJ, USA UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave