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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (Damballah Wedo)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Call Forwarding loop?
Message-ID: <464@mhuxr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 08:01:33 EDT
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> If you call forward phone A to phone B and call forward phone B to phone A
> this would of course cause a loop
> that would keep the caller call forwarding forever.
> The only way to get out of this is to call up the local phone company and
> ask them to be kind enough to reboot.
>  
>                         David A. Roth

No. If phones A and B are on the same exchange, the software would detect it,
and would not allow the subscriber to forward B to A. Even if the phones were
on different exchanges, that would not work. Phone A is immediately marked busy
upon receipt of the incoming call, so is phone B when the forwarded call arrives.
So when B forwards back to A, it will find A busy, send busy tone back (to A)
which will send it to the caller. Not an infinite loop at all.

Sorry this answer isn't bizarre
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