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From: stevel@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Ludtke)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: crossing phone lines
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Date: 12 Sep 88 00:28:44 GMT
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A friend just presented me with an interesting question. He has an answering
machine, and 2 phone lines. He wanted to know if he could just cross the
two lines to get it to work on both. My immediate response was, of course
not, that would really screw thing up. However the longer I thought about
it the less certain I became. Since he wouldn't be dialing out while it was
hooked up like this, that wouldn't be a problem. I don't know what a phone
line will do if you send a ring signal over it. Anyone have any theories.
I'm tempted to just try it, and see what happens.

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