Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: jbh@mibte.UUCP (James Harvey) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Excuses instead of info Message-ID: Date: 30 Jan 89 13:26:36 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 24 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 38, message 5 In article , childers@avsd writes: > In article mcgp1!donn@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Donn Pedro) writes: > > >If I gave out the ringback codes to everyone who asked it would > >not be available for our use for testing. People used it to > >busy out their phones so as not to be disturbed. > > Can you document this, or is this what your supervisor told you to say ? > > > Donn F Pedro {the known world}!uw-beaver!tikal!mcgp1!donn > > -- richard YES, supervisors tell you to say this, it's TRUE. More frequently, people use the ringback numbers as an intercom, (call ringback, wait till somebody upstairs picks up extension, talk). -- Jim Harvey | "Ask not for whom the bell Michigan Bell Telephone | tolls and you will only pay 29777 Telegraph | Station-to-Station rates." Southfield, Mich. 48034 | ulysses!gamma!mibte!jbh