Path: utzoo!censor!geac!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Home Data Line (was: Data Interruption by Operator) Message-ID: <16689@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 5 Feb 91 01:07:00 GMT Article-I.D.: accuvax.16689 Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows 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 11, Issue 93, Message 6 of 10 Todd Inch writes: > We used to answer line two (when line one isn't busy) "I'm sorry, you > have the wrong number." You are absolutely correct: people cannot deal with a phone answered in that manner. Throughout life, I have always had at least one telephone line that was not only unlisted, but one that I had never given out to anyone for any reason. If the line was connected to an answerable phone, I would sometimes answer it in the manner you describe. Most of the time people are just bewildered. But sometimes they became hostile and insisted that I could not possibly know that they had a wrong number without their announcement of whom they were calling. Those were even funnier at times since I would begrudgingly invite them to tell me to whom they wished to speak and then (with greatly enforced authority) inform them that they had indeed reached the wrong number. Few people in our society can deal with the notion that someone would have a telephone and not give ANYONE the number. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !