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From: OLE@csli.stanford.edu (Ole J. Jacobsen)
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Subject: Keep at Least One Rotary Phone
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Date: 21 Oct 89 14:56:00 GMT
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In the wake of the earthquake I have been having problems getting
through to a friend in Ben Lomond near Santa Cruz. Dialling the number
usually results in a fast busy. One trick I learned from the UK is to
dial the number slowly with a rotary phone. Amazingly it seems to work
here too.  Perhaps the slow dialling results in a "pass on" to the
next switch, the way the UK phone system was described here a while
ago. I am not insisting that this is the case here, I honestly do not
know, but what I report is true. Any explanations would be much
appreciated, and I will always keep a rotary dial phone handy.

Ole