Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 3 Jun 91 18:30:21 GMT From: Andy Sherman Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Ringing Tones Around the World Reply-To: Andy Sherman Message-ID: Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 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 420, Message 3 of 10 Lines: 20 In article , YSAR1111@vm1.yorku.ca (Rick Broadhead) writes: > [Moderator's Note: I don't know if you meant it the way it came out, > but the telephone instrument has *nothing* to do with the ring you > hear as the caller. What you heard must have been some kind of fluke; > some temporary switch problem. PAT] He might have hit a PBX or Centrex that uses a double ring to indicate an outside call. Having moved around the Joisey locations of Bell Labs quite a bit, I've encountered this feature in ESSX (a centrex), Dimension, and System 85. Andy Sherman/AT&T Bell Laboratories/Murray Hill, NJ AUDIBLE: (908) 582-5928 READABLE: andys@ulysses.att.com or att!ulysses!andys What? Me speak for AT&T? You must be joking!