Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: dmkdmk@uncecs.edu (David M. Kurtiak) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Gremlins in the network Message-ID: Date: 7 Apr 89 19:38:27 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 32 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 129, message 11 of 11 >In article LANGFORD@crc.crc.vcu.edu 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." > >I have had the same thing happen to my answering machine here in Atlanta >once every other day for a week and a half now... Can anyone take any >guesses as to what is happening? > >paul I occasionally have had this strange phenomenon happen to me, and couldn't explain it until one day I was right there when it happened. It appears that an incoming call rang the phone once. The answering machine picked up, but the caller immediately hung up at the same time (maybe a wrong number?). The answering machine (being a real el-cheapo economy model), didn't detect that the 'call' was disconnected. It went on playing the outgoing message to the dial tone now being sent by the telco. Dial tone timed out, while the answering machine is now listening for a message to be left, resulting in the telephone company recording seeming to have called me! ------- David M. Kurtiak Internet: dmkdmk@ecsvax.uncecs.edu Bitnet: DMKDMK@ECSVAX.BITNET UUCP: dmkdmk@ecsvax.UUCP {rutgers,gatech}!mcnc!ecsvax!dmkdmk "What do you expect? The truth or the story? Take the story, it's always more interesting."