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From: del47618@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David E Lemson)
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Subject: Re: Strange Answering Machine Messages
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Date: 14 Oct 90 20:04:00 GMT
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ckp@cup.portal.com writes:

>Whenever I call into my audix from home to check messages, it calls me
>back after I hang up.  Never says a thing - dead air - but the phone
>will ring (you can bet on it) as soon as I hang up the receiver.

>*WHAT* makes this happen?

Funny you should talk about this.  We have this problem, too.  That
same voice mail system that has left funny messages on our home
answering machine almost ALWAYS causes the phone to ring right after
you hang up on it, but only when checking messages.

But, it doesn't always happen, and I suspect the ringback has to do
with the fact that we have three-way calling, and that's what's causing
it.  I don't know.  It's really weird.


David Lemson, UIUC d-lemson@uiuc.edu