Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Selective Call Interupption Message-ID: Date: 9 Oct 89 13:20:53 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: David Lesher Lines: 29 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 440, message 2 of 12 SBT offers 'Ring Master' whereby for more $$ (of course) you can have several different number assignments on one actual pair. Then you receive different rings {long short short, long short long short, short short short, etc} to identify which number is being called. They also offer call interuption. (IMHO-a system designed by those who hawk high blood pressure medication) Now if you have both, do you get long and short beeps in your ear to identify incoming calls? A host is a host & from coast to coast...wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu no one will talk to a host that's close..............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335 [Moderator's Note: As a matter of fact, in the version of this offered by Illinois Bell, called 'Selective Ringing', you *do* get distinctive call waiting tones for each line. You get a chirp and a pause, two chirps and a pause, or a chirp-pause-chirp. And for some reason, unlike 'normal' call-waiting here, where you get notified on the first ring, and again on the fourth ring (as the caller hears the rings), when associated with Starline, we get only the first chirp(s)....no reminder chirp(s). When your service is on the newest of the digital switches here, the person you are talking to doesn't even hear them! Originally, the person you were talking to would get a 'ker-chunk!' as the line dropped for a second. Now all he hears is less than a second of dead silence if you are the person talking. If *he* is talking at the time, he hears nothing. PT]