[22843] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Busy Connect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Jan 27 20:19:32 1999
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 19:35:27 -0500
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <11758.wsimpson@greendragon.com>; from William Allen Simpson on Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:42:11PM +0000
Ameritech started to do something like this.
If you dial and get RNA, after a certain number of rings,
it will say "press 1 if you want to leave a message"
- jared
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:42:11PM +0000, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> In Mississippi, it works like this: Busy tone is replaced by a voice
> message saying something like "Your party is currently busy. If you
> would like to call again, press 1 or hold the line."
>
> If you hold the line too long (30 seconds?), or you redial a number with
> a 1 in it (several of our hunt groups have a 1 in them), you get charged
> $.75...
>
> But nobody has gotten phone bills yet, so we don't know how bad the
> financials are.
>
> The support calls are all folks trying to kindly tell us that our phone
> lines have stopped working, because of the messages shown by the modem
> software, which expects a busy signal.
>
> And if you call BellSouth to complain, they tell you to signup for
> BellSouth.Net :-(
>
> WSimpson@UMich.edu
> Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
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