Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: nigel@cc.imperial.ac.uk (Mad Nige) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Gremlins in the network Message-ID: Date: 6 Apr 89 21:53:56 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 11 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 127, message 3 of 9 Here in the UK we used to have a similar problem, where we would come home and find that the local (system-X) exchange had left messages on our answering machine saying "You have dialled incorrectly. Please replace the handset and try again." Eventually we worked out that this happened if someone dialled and waited for just enough rings that the machine would pick up the line and then hung up. The exchange would think that we had picked up the line and then after nothing was dialled issued the message. Nigel Whitfield.