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From: dekleer.pa@Xerox.COM
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Call Waiting.
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Date: 6 Oct 88 17:13:00 GMT
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All this talk about call waiting makes me ask my question.  Call waiting
is fine on outgoing calls, I like it.  However, it's worse than useless
on incoming calls because a non-answer makes the caller think I'm not
even home.  Some solutions I'd accept (I don't know how practical they
are): on the third non-answered ring, caller gets a busy signal;
punching *70 during a call cancels call waiting; punching *70 on a call
waiting interrupt cancels it.