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Subject: Re: Call waiting--call forwarding
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Date: Thu, 12-Mar-87 00:49:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 12 00:49:10 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Mar-87 05:40:06 EST
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in article <8703111444.AA27190@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, forman@CEEE-SED.ARPA says:
> 
> Thanks to all of you who sugggested using *70 to cancel (temporarily) 
> call waiting. C&P Telephone does not (yet) have this feature available
> in my area. It is availabe in West Virginia on their system and they
> are implementing it slowly in other areas.
> C&P has a special sign-up for custom features offer through 16 March, and
> I have signed up to add call forwarding. I would like to forward to a 
> busy signal, as many people know we have both call waiting and an 
> answering machine now, and thus could be puzzled if they got an 
> unanswered phone. 
> Does anyone know to locate a line that gives a busy tone?

   maybe you could have it dial yourself!!

   I had a lot of fun with these features when they first came out... let's see,
   who could I forward to ? In this area a "1" must be prefixed to long distance
   numbers, so naturally this gives rise to the need of error message recordings

   I then proceeded to forward my phone to a number that usually did require
   a "1" prefix, but infact I forwarded it to such a number dialed without
   the one prefix.

   the dialee (!!) would then get a "We're sorry, you must first dial a one
   when calling this number. Will you please hang up and try your call again"

   usually then they would proceed to call the same number with a one and
   get the corresponding alternate message "We're sorry, it is not necessary
   to dial a one when calling this number.  Will you please hang up and try
   your call again"

	lots of fun... Well I *was* 16 at the time...

   And then... I found this *new* feature... party line calling. Then fun
   really started! Being interested in what the limits of this system where
   we found that "stringing" together 10-12 callers was not impracticle.
   A protocol was worked out so that some conversation could actually take
   place, vs. the otherwise possible random noise. Token ring passing and
   collision detection/arbitration was first tried and invented on just
   such a setup.


       Have fun.

     Alex P.



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