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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
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Posted: Fri Mar  9 19:14:00 1984
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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.......