From: "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net> Ameritech offers the same service, and I've only been charged for the times I've actually used the feature. If I hang up, I don't get charged. I have to believe BellSouth works the same way, although I could be wrong.
Ameritech doesn't offer it here in Michigan, so I don't know what problems there are.
Well, I'll be damned! It's here today. Only 2 days ago, I got a normal busy signal here in Ann Arbor. Just now, I got a voiceover that said "Let repeat dialing call you back when this line is free. To activate, for 75 cents, press 3. No additional charge to repeat dialing customers. If you are calling from a rotary dial phone, please hang up and dial 1166." I could barely hear the busy signal in the background, but the modem didn't catch it. Good thing there isn't a 3 or a 1166 in my dialing sequence. WSimpson@UMich.edu Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
William Allen Simpson wrote:
Good thing there isn't a 3 or a 1166 in my dialing sequence.
The only condition I can think of why a modem would need to dial some digits after a phone number that could go busy is to dial an extension. That could be a problem, but I cannot imagine an ISP setting up their service with an extension to a phone number. Re-dialing should be done after an on-hook off-hook cycle, which should be long enough to avoid the new optional conference calling services. -- -- *-----------------------------* Phil Howard KA9WGN * -- -- | Inturnet, Inc. | Director of Internet Services | -- -- | Business Internet Solutions | eng at intur.net | -- -- *-----------------------------* phil at intur.net * --
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 01:07:53AM +0000, William Allen Simpson wrote:
"Let repeat dialing call you back when this line is free. To activate, for 75 cents, press 3. No additional charge to repeat dialing customers. If you are calling from a rotary dial phone, please hang up and dial 1166."
Yes, that's the message. Automatic Callback is another service. Thanks. -- Steve Sobol sjsobol@nacs.net (AKA support@nacs.net and abuse@nacs.net) "Can you look out the window, without your shadow getting in the way" --Sarah McLachlan - "Building a Mystery"
At 01:51 1/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 01:07:53AM +0000, William Allen Simpson wrote:
"Let repeat dialing call you back when this line is free. To activate, for 75 cents, press 3. No additional charge to repeat dialing customers. If you are calling from a rotary dial phone, please hang up and dial 1166."
Yes, that's the message. Automatic Callback is another service. Thanks.
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