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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 18:40:47 GMT
From: mnc@css.itd.umich.edu (Miguel Cruz)
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Subject: Re: Hook Tapping
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In article <telecom11.471.10@eecs.nwu.edu> Dan Shapin <CS131B05@ccvax.
fullerton.edu> writes:

> How do you place a call with out dialing it using the "Hook tapping"
> method. Does it work on any phone?

This works on phones that don't have timed switchhooks. I've gotten
pretty good at it, but it's by and large a useless skill. Listen to a
rotary phone dialing and take note of the timing. Go back in your mind
to music class in school and pretend you have to remember the tempo.

Obviously it doesn't work on digital phones. (This is the only newsgroup 
where I would feel paranoid enough to include that).


peace