Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!RAMONES.RUTGERS.EDU!shs From: shs@RAMONES.RUTGERS.EDU (S. H. Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Who's calling who? Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 88 18:55:45 GMT References: <3202@phri.UUCP> Sender: uucp@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: shs@ramones.rutgers.edu (S. H. Schwartz) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick NJ Lines: 23 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu In article <3202@phri.UUCP> roy%phri@UUNET.UU.NET (Roy Smith) writes: > > An extememly bizarre thing happened to me the other day. My phone >rang and when I picked it up, what I heard was the sound of a remote phone >ringing (as if I had placed a call and was waiting for the other party to >pick up). After a few seconds, I heard what sounded like somebody picking >up the phone but (after a few very confused moments) it was obvious that >the person on the other end was somebody who had just placed a call and was >surprised that I wasn't the person she had called. The Dimension PBX has an option where, if I'm trying to call another inside extension, but it's busy, I set my phone to redial in the background. When the other person's phone becomes free, PBX grabs his line, and rings my phone; then I answer, and -his- phone starts ringing. Still, the destination shouldn't hear ringing until the source picks up for the second time. -- ---***--- Spring cleaning: get the BREAD out!! S. H. Schwartz (201) 846-9185 shs@paul.rutgers.edu (201) 932-4714 ...rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!shs