Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 14 May 91 17:25:05 EDT From: John Cowan Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Pagers and Timeout Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 371, Message 8 of 8 Lines: 20 The Esteemed Moderator writes: > [Moderator's Note: How could this be? Did you mean it gets the person > to return the call quicker or it somehow gets the transmission out to > the pager a little faster? Why would anyone necessarily rush to the > phone faster to call because they saw '00'? Explain please. PAT] Probably means that the pager system accepts up to ten digits, and if you enter a seven-digit number and then pad with "*00" it doesn't need to time out. "#" might work, too. cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan [Moderator's Note: The 'official' answer to this will be given in an issue of the Digest later today. I have a message in the queue which explains what the original author meant. PAT]