Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "John R. Covert 25-Dec-1989 0150" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Calling the BBS in Tallinn, Estonia Message-ID: <2401@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 24 Dec 89 14:55:11 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 35 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 592, message 8 of 8 >Moderator's Note: What a nice holiday present it might be to give >this chap a call, even for five minutes or so, and wish him the best >from his friends in the United States and elsewhere in the world of >TELECOM Digest readers. If anyone does call, consider reporting back >to us here, or perhaps downloading a bit of your session on line. It's going to have to be someone elsewhere in the world, since AT&T has not seen fit to reenable direct-dialing to anywhere in the SU except for Moscow. Tallinn was dialable in 1980 before Brezhnev shut off all incoming traffic from the west, but not now. I believe that AT&T feels that the grade of service (either due to number of lines or line quality) to Tallinn is not adequate for direct dial service and would prefer to have operators assisting customers who want to call. Readers will note that the information about the Tallinn BBS was submitted by someone in Finland, rather close to Tallinn, who can probably reach it on direct circuits from Helsinki. /john [Moderator's Note: Here is my question to you: Isn't it still possible to call that system from here in the States by going through the operator? That is, place the call through the AT&T operator and advise her at that time that the number will likely answer with a modem tone *which is okay*, and that she should exit ASAP once the carrier comes on. When the carrier is heard, immediatly enter ATO on your modem (or the equivilent), and proceed with your session. Admittedly the connection would not be the best; I doubt if a baud rate faster than 300 would be successful at all unless the connection was very, very clean. Any problems you can cite with using your modem and computer through a manual operator connection? PT]