Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Calling Party ID on Two Party Lines Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 02:05:15 GMT Article-I.D.: eecs.telecom11.264.3 Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: David Lesher Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers 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 264, Message 3 of 8 John Higdon asks how party identification works on two party lines. Dave Levenson explains... > This is why, years after most of us could walk into almost any > appliance store and buy a telephone set equipped with a modular jack > and take it home and plug it in, subscribers on party lines are denied > this right. Err, Ma didn't always do this correctly. A technician (who worked on a project of mine at a past agency) bought his party-line 500 set from Ohio Bell. He wanted to install some more sets. You guessed it - he was ring party! We wired the other 500 sets to also provide the ground through the ringer. I never *did* figure out how Ma was so confused that She could provide party line service, charge for party line service, and yet not KNOW it when they offered to sell him the phone! Yet when he called them about it, they pitched him about getting private line service. ;_] By the way, Lou was one of the hold-outs I mentioned. He had been the ONLY party on the pair for several years, and had NO intention of giving in, when I last talked to him.