Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 3 Apr 91 15:34:54 GMT From: "David E. Bernholdt" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Strange Phone Calls Message-ID: Organization: Quantum Theory Project, Univ. of Florida Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 266, Message 4 of 16 Lines: 29 I received a rather strange series of phone calls at my home last night. I answered the phone and a synthesized female voice says "Please hold the line, I have a call for this number." After several seconds of silence, it says "I am trying to connect your call, please hold." (Or something to that effect.) This was repeated about four times, then it said "Are you still holding?" and I mechanically answered "Yes". The voice said "I'm sorry, but I have not been able to connect the call. I will try again later," and hangs up. It called again, perhaps 20 minutes later. Same drill, except this time I didn't answer the "Are you still holding?" question. It said nothing more, and held the line until I hung up. The third time it called, I hung up after the first "I am trying to connect your call ..." It didn't call back after that. I've never heard of anything like this before. Does anybody recognize what it might be, besides a failure (at least in this case)? David Bernholdt bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu Quantum Theory Project bernhold@ufpine.bitnet University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 904/392 6365