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From: beede@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Beede)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Phone Clamp-Down
Message-ID: <387@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Aug-87 19:21:59 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 15 19:21:59 1987
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in article <AV9=vay00Vs3xS40Aj@andrew.cmu.edu), mp1w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc Russell Pawliger) says:
) 
) 
) I was my impression that no phone could be kept connected by an outside
) originated call for longer than about 30 seconds if it the called-to phone
) was on hook.  An outgoing call from your phone *can* be disconnected if you
) hit *your* switchhook for a few seconds, but the person you are talking to
) has to hold their switchhook for 30 seconds to disconnect the call.

According to a discussion in mod.telcom a while back, this is a feature
intended to make it possible for you to move to a different phone to carry on
a conversation.  I imagine that in this day of digital switches some code
could be arranged to allow nearly instant disconnect from the callee's end.
Someone, of course, would have to make it advantageous (read: raise hell).
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