Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: zorac!dretor.dciem.dnd.ca!chk@uunet.UU.NET (C. Harald Koch) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Excuses instead of info Message-ID: Date: 6 Jan 89 19:58:53 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 15 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 7, message 4 In article jacobson@gamma.eecs.nwu.edu (Dan Jacobson) writes: >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^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ Here in Toronto, you can use 57x-xxxx, where x-xxxx are the last five digits of your phone number. This only works on touch-tone phone lines though. (If the exchange supports touch-tone, but you haven't suscribed, it doesn't work). -- C. Harald Koch NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Ontario chk@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca, chk@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu, chk@chkent.UUCP "I give you my phone number. If you worry, call me. I'll make you happy."