Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: bridge2!bridge2: edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov; Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: speaking of ringbacks Message-ID: Date: 27 Apr 89 22:55:12 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: bridge2!bridge2: edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov; Organization: 3Com Corp., Mt. View, CA Lines: 23 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 150, message 9 of 9 In article gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia. edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 143, message 3 of 7 > >My family has a house in Litchfield, CT. Up there the ringback works a little >differently. All you have to do to get one is: > > >1. Dial your own number. [Rest of procedure deleted.] This sounds like it is a vestige of the procedure used to call another party on your party line. Was this line once a party line? Is it still? I'll bet it's an OLD central office. -edg -- {decwrl|sun|oliveb}!CSO.3com.com!Edward_Greenberg Ed Greenberg -or- 3Com Corporation {sun|hplabs}!bridge2!edg Mountain View, CA 415-694-2952