Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: djo@pacbell.com (Dan'l DanehyOakes) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Sprint's Disconnections Message-ID: <6324@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Apr 90 20:19:37 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Dan'l DanehyOakes Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 48 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 250, Message 6 of 11 In article <6229@accuvax.nwu.edu> John Higdon writes: >Thinking back, I can't remember a single time when I *haven't* been >disconnected by Sprint during the course of a lengthy call. Has anyone >else noticed this? On a related note (no pun intended... you'll see why): Some friends and I started a Dungeons & Dragons game back in '76. Some years later (I'm not sure when, but it had to be approximately '83), Peter da Silva was participating on a fairly-regular basis by telephone (Houston to Berkeley), with a speakerphone at our end so he could converse with the other players "as if" he were physically present. (Oh, boy -- telepresence in gaming. A new first...) We were using Sprint (still SPCC in those dim primeval days). One Saturday night, the game was rolling along. My daughter, age approx. 1 year at the time, was sitting in her playpen in the living room, wanting attention. She let out a very high-pitched "eeeeee". The speakerphone replied with dial tone. We all wondered why Peter had hung up on us. Peter called back a few seconds later, and wondered why *we* had hung up on *him*. Anyone familiar with the exploits of my former employer, Cap'n Crunch, or any other such telepirate will have already surmised what happened, but it took us several more rounds of "eeee" - dialtone before we did. Our daughter had, quite by chance, "eeee"ed at the disconnect tone for the SPCC network signalling system. And, finding that the speakerphone did something funny when she did it, repeated the experiment. *sigh* They say it's a fact that you head is cracked, I think that you are loco... Your cerebral vault has a single fault, I think that you are loco... You're a paranoid and your head's a void, I think that you are loco... The Roach