Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: William.Degnan@f39.n382.z1.fidonet.org (William Degnan) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Strange Answering Machine Messages Message-ID: <13591@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 14 Oct 90 20:47:11 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 25 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 739, Message 6 of 14 On David Lemson (FREE0612@uiucvmd ) writes: DL>...we'd find a message DL>on the answering machine consisting of a ring or so and my dad's DL>voice mail message. Then, the standard "If you'd like to leave a DL>message, press one ..." message and the answering machine timed out on the DL>silence from the other end. Pretty weird, huh? How about the possibility that your dad called home, hit your answering machine, flashed for new dial tone and made another call. The switch at your dad's office tried to ring the held call back to him, saw that his phone was in use and sent it to his voice mail. "Have your machine call my machine...we'll do lunch." Disclaimer: Contents do not constitute "advice" unless we are on the clock. William Degnan | wdegnan@mcimail.com Communications Network Solutions | !wdegnan@at&tmail.com -Independent Consultants | William.Degnan@telemail.com in Telecommunications | UUCP: ...!natinst!tqc!39!William.Degnan P.O. Drawer 9530 | ARPA: William.Degnan@f39.n382.z1.FidoNet.Org Austin, TX 78766-9530 | Voice +1 512 323 9383