Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Jerry B. Altzman" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Annoying Intercept Behavior Message-ID: <9685@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Jul 90 14:39:06 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: "Jerry B. Altzman" Organization: mailer daemons association Lines: 32 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 479, Message 13 of 14 In article <9607@accuvax.nwu.edu> leichter@lrw.com (LEICHTER-JERRY@ CS.YALE.EDU) writes: >The oddity is the way the intercept is implemented. It doesn't take >place immediately after the last digit - not to mention after the >exchange, which is possible. Instead, you get two or three normal >rings and THEN a long, wordy message telling you exactly what you >should have done. [complaint deleted...] >Why would anyone set up intercepts this way? Is it done this way >elsewhere? I don't know if pay phones fit in this category, but in at least three other states (PA, NJ, and NY), if you dial a number without putting in the correct amount of change, you get two or three rings, and *then* a voice says "deposit xx more cents". This is both now and in the days of the AT&T/Ma Bell monopoly. I've also seen this on toll calls in all three of those states nowadays. //jbaltz (yet another jerry) jerry b. altzman 212 854 8058 jbaltz@columbia.edu jauus@cuvmb (bitnet) NEVIS::jbaltz (HEPNET) ...!rutgers!columbia!jbaltz (bang!)