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From: Miguel_Cruz@um.cc.umich.edu
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Subject: Multiple Call-Forwarding Error
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Date: 29 Dec 89 06:01:50 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 599, message 7 of 9

My phone number (313-663), certifiably a residence, allows seemingly infinite
concurrent call forwards with the regular Michigan Bell call forwarding
service.  As an added bonus, you can forward it to another number (in a
different switch) and forward that other number back to it, and call either,
and hear endless clicks as the call gets bounced back and forth, eating
up more and more trunks (or whatever they use for interoffice calls
these days..).

[Moderator's Note: If you are correct in this, then I would say there
is a very serious problem there; one that MichBell should correct. You
can cross-forward here in Chicago, but the call forwards only once in
each direction and rings through. That is, I forward to you and you
forward to me: Calls to me ring through on your line regardless of how
yours is set, and calls to you ring through on me, regardless of how
my line is set. Apparently some information is sent with the forwarded
call telling the next switch 'call is already being forwarded, ignore
further forwarding and ring as requested', or something like that.
PT]