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From: ted@blia.sharebase.com (Ted Marshall)
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Subject: Re: Cordless Phones False Dialing?
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Date: 5 Feb 91 00:47:07 GMT
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I don't think it's your cordless phone but your answering machine,
although this depends on exactly what message you are getting.

I use to get the last part of the message "Your call cannot be
completed as dialed; please hang up ..." on my answering machine. What
I finally descovered was that the caller(s) was hanging up as soon as
my outgoing message started.  During the time that the rest of the
outgoing message was playing, the phone company presented and then
timed-out dial-tone (because the outgoing message was playing, the
machine did not notice the hang-up or dial-time). By the time the
machine started recording the incoming message, the phone co. was
playing the dial-tone time-out message, which the AM recorded.

I solved the problem by shortening my outgoing message so the AM would
notice the dial-tone.


Ted Marshall                                       ted@airplane.sharebase.com
ShareBase Corp., 14600 Winchester Blvd, Los Gatos, Ca 95030     (408)378-7000
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