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From: bbx!bbx.basis.com!russ@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Russ Kepler)
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Subject: Re: Turning Off Call Waiting Remotely
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Date: 30 Oct 90 00:19:30 GMT
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On a similar vein of the call waiting I had an experience that might
interest some of the readers (the rest can skip it...)

One of my Usenet news feeds became stuck while its owner was out of
town.  No cause could be found until he got back in town and listened
to the call.

The modem was on his phone line and the dialer disabled call waiting
prior to the call.  When the local telco removed call waiting his mode
began getting an intercept and a 'your call cannot be...' message.

Strange - why couldn't they just ignore it?  Seems to me that would be
a better solution than the intercept (better yet to return to dial
tone.)


Russ Kepler -  Basis Int'l     SNAIL:  5901 Jefferson NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109
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