Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxf!ho95b!wcs From: wcs@ho95b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Junk Phone Calls Message-ID: <648@houxf.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 19:14:00 EST Article-I.D.: houxf.648 Posted: Fri Mar 9 19:14:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 13:24:19 EST Sender: **RJE**@houxf.UUCP Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 17 I have accidentally been the originator of a few junk phone calls. I have an answering machine at my desk, and my office just got Automatic Callback, which will connect you to another user on the same ESSX switch when his/her phone stops being busy. Normally, when the other person hangs up, it dials your phone (using a special ring code), waits until you answer, and rings the other phone. Well, my boss's phone was busy, so I punched the *77 for ACB. After about 10 minutes, I gave up and left. (There isn't a Cancel-Automatic-Callback code.) He eventually hung up, and the ESSX rang my phone. After 3 rings, my answering machine answered, so the ESSX rang my boss's phone. "Hello! This is Bill Stewart. I'm not at my desk right now, but you can leave a message for me on this machine after the beep tone, or send me electronic mail at.......