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From: "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <wsrcc!wolfgang@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: San Jose Mercury Strikes Again
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Date: 28 Aug 90 11:19:50 GMT
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In article <11392@accuvax.nwu.edu> mearle@pro-party.cts.com (Mark
Earle) writes:

>Here in Corpus Christi, TX, a machine aparently makes the rounds of
>various organizations (I hear of it as being resold often) with a
>similiar flaw. On several occasions, my voice and modem lines got
>calls from this thing. [...] This same sleeze machine would not
>release your line for two minutes (length of pitch). Quite an annoyance.

Does anyone know if whistling a 2600 hz note into the phone would
break this call off?

   "But officer, I was just doing that to disconnect a telemarketer..."


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