[22853] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Busy Connect
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Thu Jan 28 02:12:10 1999
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:50:29 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19990127193527.D15171@puck.nether.net>; from Jared Mauch on Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:35:27PM -0500
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:35:27PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 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
Yes, but.
Getting a no-answer message from the modem, when the other end isn't
answering, is fine.
Getting a no-answer message from the modem, when the other end is busy, isn't
cool. And it will confuse a lot of customers who do not know better.
--
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"
