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From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
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Subject: Re: Sports Stadium Use of a "Dedicated" Phone
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In article <13758@accuvax.nwu.edu> Carl Moore writes:

>Would it be possible for a baseball dugout to have phones connecting
>only to, say, the bullpen? 

>From a dugout to a bullpen would be such an overkill when the
>already-in-place PBX connects them anyway with three digit dialing, no?  PAT]

Most PBXes make it easy to make any extension a ring-down.  You set
the extension to call, generally the same way that you set any
forwarding target, and set a status bit to make the extension a
ring-down.  Assuming you have a free port on the PBX, there's no real
cost beyond wiring up the phone.

I could imagine that a non-technophilic manager would like to have a
few phones in the dugout on which he could just pick up and start
talking.

Regards,

John Levine, johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!esegue!johnl