Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!decuac!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: FLINTON@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Fred E.J. Linton) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: What Happens When a Phone Hangs Up? Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 89 23:26:36 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 47 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us In article , AI.CLIVE@mcc.com (Clive Dawson) writes, in part: > Questions: > ... or do they simply detect silence on the > line in order to decide whether/when to start/stop recording? That's certainly what my non-Panasonic does. > -- Is it correct for the off-hook warning stuff to be triggered > under these circumstances? Is this the norm? In my area (New Haven, (203)), it's your not being connected yet to anything AND not having dialed another digit for 15 or 20 seconds that triggers an off-hook/please-finish-dialing-or-hang-up-and-dial-again message. > -- Do other people have this problem? I used to have a machine that spewed a message for twenty seconds and then listened for thirty-five (and then unceremoniously hung up). This often brought in about ten seconds of dial tone (generated after the caller hung up immediately upon hearing my machine), ten seconds of silence, and the first few seconds of the off-hook warning. > I suppose the obvious thing to try is to reduce the length of my > outgoing message. Yes -- I currently have a fifteen second outgoing message, and my machine hangs up after six seconds of EITHER silence OR dialtone. Usually my hang-ups hear enough of my message that I get only the six seconds of silence; rarely, though, they hang up so quickly that the silence period times out during my message or just barely after it ends; then six seconds of dialtone get recorded before my machine senses it's only dialtone and hangs up. -- Fred ARPA/Internet: FLINTON@eagle.Wesleyan.EDU Bitnet: FLINTON%eagle@WESLEYAN[.bitnet] from uucp: ...!{research, mtune!arpa, uunet}!eagle.Wesleyan.EDU!FLinton on ATT-Mail: !fejlinton Tel.: + 1 203 776 2210 (home) OR + 1 203 347 9411 xt 2249 (work) Telex: + 15 122 3413 FEJLINTON CompuServe ID: 72037,1054 F-Net (guest): linton@inria.inria.fr OR ...!inria.inria.fr!linton