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From: jmzweig@snail.CS.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Disabling Call-Waiting on a Per
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Date: 12 Feb 88 19:34:00 GMT
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Nf-From: snail.CS.UIUC.EDU!jmzweig    Feb 12 13:34:00 1988


	I have lived in Oregon and Illinois and never had a hitch with getting
call waiting turned off (in fact, my autodial sequence always starts with *70W
so I don't get cut off).
	Observation: if you are using the phone for data alot so that getting
bleeped to death is a big problem, shouldn't you reconsider whether having
call waiting is even worth it? The telco will cut it off for a few bucks, and
the problem goes away. So people will get busy signals sometimes -- that's
what you are trying to arrange...
	Suggestion: rag on the phone company. DC is thick as thieves with
modem users, and if the phone company doesn't support *70, it is a *big*
problem, and should brought to the proper people's attention. Maybe they
just threw a switch for your local exchange and never noticed....

Johnny Zweig