Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: kdf@ihlpa.att.com (Ken Frantzen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Gremlins in the network Message-ID: Date: 6 Apr 89 23:36:26 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Ken Frantzen Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 22 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 4 of 9 In article Paul Anderson writes: >>A friend and I had a strange experience this weekend. She came home and >>played back her answering machine, and got this: >> (those tones that come with intercept recordings) >> "We're sorry, all of our circuits are in use now; please try your call >> again later." A guess what may be happening. Somebody with a 3-way calling feature calls you. The switch hook is flashed (instead of hanging up). This activates the 3-way calling. Another number is dialed - plus another flash. Your machine is now bridged on the call that gets the no circuit announcement. You now record the announcement. I'd think you'd eventually get a recording of a live conversation if this happens several times.