Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Answering Machine as Room Bug Message-ID: <12487@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Sep 90 19:10:11 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: "Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR" Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH Lines: 41 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 671, Message 3 of 12 As quoted from <12430@accuvax.nwu.edu> by Norman R Tiedemann : | In article <12341@accuvax.nwu.edu>, wilkins@jarthur.claremont.edu | (Mark Wilkins) writes: | >The question I have is this: Does anyone know of a way that someone | >inexperienced with such matters could accidentally set up a | >three-way call? Or did this have to be intentional? | He calls you, (to schedule the appointment or whatever), gets your | machine and decides he doesn't want to leave a message. He taps the | switch hook, which instead of hanging up, gives him the second line, | the CO on your end doesn't even detect the disconnect and keeps your | machine connected (and recording). He now has a threeway setup between | your machine, himself and the next person he called. Everything is I had the younger brother to this problem for a while. When I moved into the apartment I currently live in, the local CO had an older version of the custom calling package; for example, they had call waiting but no way to turn it off. Until they upgraded, I could not simply flash the switch-hook to hang up, despite the fact that I had *only* call waiting, none of the other features. I got into the habit of holding the switch-hook down for a count of five before dialing another number. I think the problem is gone now, since the CO has upgraded to support *70 (1170), etc., but since I still use the count- of-five approach, I don't know for certain. I also got into the habit of making sure I had dial tone before doing anything else. Until I got wise and changed my ways, a caller (or callee) might have gotten a bit of a surprise just after I supposedly hung up. (Not that this happened often; much more often was that I'd continue to get the busy signal I'd gotten the first time I tried to dial out.) Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY