Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: shri@ccs1.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar{shri@ncst.in}) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Poor Man's Intercom Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 89 00:43:01 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: "H.Shrikumar{shri@ncst.in}" Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 19 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 512, message 6 of 12 In article HGSCHULZ@cs.umass.edu (Henning Schulzrinne) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 502, message 7 of 11 >By accident I discovered a way to use the phone for in-house calls: >Dial your own number and replace the phone ...etc... Funny, it does not work in Sunderland. (413)-665-XXXX area. I was very excited when I saw this and tried it at first opportunity. But it failed. I get the same tones (sort of an engaged tone with a sore throat :-) each time, just after the number. Irrespective of how fast or slowly I put back the receiver, the phone never rings back. (FYI, Sunderland is next door to Amherst, MA, served by the same phone company. However, the 545 area seems to be a special area for UMass, so this might be source of the difference in behaviour.) shrikumar ( shri@ccs1.cs.umass.edu, shri@ncst.in , (413)-665-7215 )