Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: judice%kyoa.DEC@decwrl.dec.com (Louis J. Judice) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Dangers of Wrong Numbers Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 89 10:23:00 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 27 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 63, message 1 of 8 Re: Automatic Retry I believe the FCC prohibits automatic re-dialers to make more than 15 unanswered requests - IF - only one number is selected for re-dialing. My Radio Shack "Sensorphone" (neat little device that calls up to four pre-programmed numbers if temperatures go out of range, power fails or alarms go off) had a little problem like this recently. It has an "answering machine compatibility mode", which I never used until I had to put an answering machine on the #2 line in my house that had modems and the Sensorphone. Well, I didn't completely test it, and of course there was a power failure the next day. The sensorphone proceded to call my mother's house and my brother's house repeatedly, every 2.5 minutes from 9am until 7pm, with the dire message "THIS IS TELEPHONE NUMBER 123-4567. THE ELECTRICICITY IS OFF..." Of course the electricity was back on within 30 seconds at 9am, and every attempt to call the stupid thing back met with the answering machine picking up the line. I even tried to trick my other answering machine, which has message forwarding to call the second line and hopefully tie the damn thing up until it ran out of tape. But it didn't work. Anyway, the Sensorphone is now on the OTHER line - with an answering machine that it seems to be compatible with, and it ONLY calls my mom's house! /ljj