Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: jacobson@gamma.eecs.nwu.edu (Dan Jacobson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Excuses instead of info Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 89 09:46:57 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 25 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 4, message 4 >Back in the good old days...one could dial a special number, >hang up, and the dialing phone would ring; some kind of Here in Evanston, IL, beginning a few years ago you had to put a "1" in front of the test sequence that you used to use. In Evanston, depending on your prefix, 475, 328, ... you have to use one of 571...576, I'm not sure how they map. Other cities should also use the same 571...576 set. My house, say 475-9999, uses: dial 1-572-9999, hear funny tone, click phone, hear tone, hang up, it rings. You can loop here^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ I have my phone bell hooked up (via a Fone-Flasher (Radio Shack)) to a circle of christmas lights around my room. When the phone rings it's a "ring of fire," especially when just waking up. So that test number is great for entertaining guests. -- Dan Jacobson, jacobson@eecs.nwu.edu, {oddjob,gargoyle,att,...}!nucsrl!jacobson [Moderator's Note: Evanston and Chicago are the same difference, telephonically speaking. Dan is a few blocks up the street from my house. We in Chicago use 1-571-your last four digits through 1-577-last four. Whether the key is 571, 572,573,574,575,576 or 577 is an arbitrary decision in the CO.]