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From: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell)
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Subject: Re: Modem Leapfrog to Avoid Toll Charges
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Date: 19 Mar 90 18:21:41 GMT
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In article <5292@accuvax.nwu.edu> swbatl!uiucuxc!cmpfen!bob@uunet.uu.net (Bob 
Breum) writes:
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>kabra437@athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) writes:
>>In article <4984@accuvax.nwu.edu> you write:
>>>Is it illegal to have two modems tied up to each other so that a person 
>>>could call the one modem and bounce to another (3d) modem to avoid toll 
>>>charges?

 .....lots deleted....

>There's a better answer.  I have used a device which allows you to
>reprogram the call forwarding number remotely to accomplish this same
>purpose.

>The Remote Phone Forwarder (mfgd. by Cynex in N.J.) device....
>Bob Breum

(Could you pleas post/mail their address/phone number? - thanks)

I've been wondering about the feasibility of a related setup.  Here's
the situation.  I make quite a few long-distance calls while in my
office at school, and right how have to use my calling card.  The
$0.70 or so per call adds up.  My appartment is a local call from
school.

Is there a device available that would coexist with an answering
machine, and if it heard the right DTMF security sequence kick the
answering machine off the line and respond with its own prompt (a tone
or somthing).  Then I would enter the number I wanted to call and the
device would use three-way calling to place the call.  It would then sit
back and hold the line open until the call was completed, at which
time I could either hand up or send it another number.

Does such a device exist?  I haven't experimented with three-way to
see if CPC is provided when the second connection is broken so the
device would know to accept another number.  (I think it has to flash
in order to connect to me, the first connection, again).


Steve Tell					tell@wsmail.cs.unc.edu
CS Grad Student, UNC Chapel Hill.
Former chief engineer, Duke Union Community Television, Durham, NC.