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Re: Busy Connect


From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol () nacs net>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:50:29 -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"



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