Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: comcon!roy@uunet.uu.net (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: What Happens When a Phone Hangs Up? Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 89 02:23:35 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Computer Connection Lines: 38 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 438, message 2 of 7 In article , AI.CLIVE@mcc.com (Clive Dawson) writes: > I've had several years of trouble-free operation from my Panasonic > a message, I get a "message" anyway consisting of: > [message deleted] > If you need help, please hang up and dial your operator." > Skipping past as many as 5 or 6 of these a day is getting to be a pain. In Anchorage, the message is "I'm sorry... you have exceeded the time allowed to place a call. Please hang up and try your call again. This is a recording... 907... 33." (the 33 is the first 2 digits of my exchange) > -- Is it possible that my machine has lost its ability to > detect a remote hang-up? Do Panasonic machines detect > remote hang-ups, or do they simply detect silence on the > line in order to decide whether/when to start/stop recording? My machine is a Code-a-Phone. I believe it only detects silence, and not a genuine early hang-up. > -- Is it correct for the off-hook warning stuff to be triggered > under these circumstances? Is this the norm? My best guess is that callers hear my machine pick up and hang up right away, or hang up a split-second *before* my machine picks up. Either way, it seems to trigger the off-hook warning. On the bright side, the fast reorder-like screech causes my machine to hang up, so I only have to fast-forward past the voice. [...] > -- Do other people have this problem? Yup.... :-( Roy M. Silvernail | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Life in the arctic is no picnic" [ah, but it's my account... of course I opine!] -touristy T-shirt SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc.