Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: slr@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Rhoades) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: My New 1AESS Generic - Some Missing Features Message-ID: <12783@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 28 Sep 90 18:06:55 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: "Steve L. Rhoades" Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 39 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 694, Message 4 of 12 The good folks at Pacific*Bell have decided to bless me with a new ESS generic. I am sorry I don't know the number. There were several nice bugs (features ?) in the old generic that I'll miss. Most notably: Let's say you had call-forwarding on your phone (call this phone A). So does a friend of yours who happens to be served by the same C.O. (Phone B). Let's say your friend had his call-forwarding enabled. You REALLY wanted to reach him and you knew he was at home. In the old generic, Phone A could dial 72# + Phone B and literally "break thru" phone B's call forwarding. It wouldn't cancel the forward, it would just allow you to break through. No more. Phone A will forward to phone B which, if forwarding is enabled, will forward normally. It should also be noted that I've tried this from a line that has a CO based "Home-Centrex" (Premier, Commstarr 2, whatever it's called this week.) I've tried using *72 (to get the forwarding dial tone), *0X (which is used by CommStarr as a special prefix, then the last four. This works if Phone B isn't forwarding. If Phone B is, I get a re-order. Also with Commstarr, through a complex series of events, I was able to keep adding on calls. i.e. I didn't just have three-way calling, we called it N-way. Through adding on calls, I once had 20 people conferenced at once. No more. Now, when trying this, if I dial anything other than a "*", I get a re-order. Some things DIDN'T need fixing. Internet: slr@tybalt.caltech.edu | Voice-mail: (818) 794-6004 UUCP: ...elroy!tybalt!slr | USmail: Box 1000, Mt. Wilson, Ca. 91023