Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Kenneth R Crudup Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: What Would it Take For Modems to Recognize Call Waiting? Message-ID: <11656@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 3 Sep 90 01:04:43 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Software Tool&Die, (Boston), MA Lines: 20 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 616, Message 3 of 8 In article <11444@accuvax.nwu.edu>, mje99!mje@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Mark J Elkins) writes: >As one customer used to do ... dedicate a phone line just for modem use. >When the PO found out - they were not too happy - they developed some >manual routine of disconecting him some time about 5pm each night - so >he was forced to make at least one call a day. In article <11470@accuvax.nwu.edu> v116kznd@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu says: >Are they, the phone company(s), allowed to do this? He lives in the Republic of South Africa. Obviously the government and its agencies (which I bet the phone company is) do anything they want. Kenny Crudup, Unix Systems Consultant nubian!kenny@ima.ima.isc.com 14 John Eliot Sq. #2B, Roxbury, MA 02119-1569 (617) 442 6585