Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site timeb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!timeinc!timeb!dwight From: dwight@timeb.UUCP (Dwight Ernest) Newsgroups: net.dcom Subject: Re: modem info (call waiting) (mild flame) Message-ID: <49@timeb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 06:59:42 EST Article-I.D.: timeb.49 Posted: Mon Jan 14 06:59:42 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 01:09:20 EST References: <1362GMS@PSUVM> <1261@hou4b.UUCP> <1937@sun.uucp> Organization: Time, Inc., New York City Lines: 39 > > Q: Is there a modem compatible with call-waiting? > > It's really funny to see all the people from AT&T replying to this. > Why didn't you guys design the "feature" so it could be turned off? Awwww, come on, give those AT&T people a break! Weren't you ever in a social setting (a party, perhaps), and someone asks you what you do for a living, and you answer you're "in computers," and then they start asking all kinds of questions about their Commodore 64 or some such nonsense, and end up blaming you for their problems with the machine? That's roughly analogous to what you're doing when you "blame" the AT&T people who took the trouble to make a thoughtful reply to the call waiting question. Unlike Sun, AT&T is a rather large company, and the chances are EXTREMELY remote that these AT&T people had ANYTHING to do with the design or the implementation of Call Waiting and the other Custom Callling stuff. They probably agree with your criticism of it, in fact. So please don't flame 'em! In fact, I was at a party the other day and got "blamed" for something that was published in TIME, and I have nothing more than to do with what gets published therein than you do. -- --Dwight Ernest KA2CNN \ Usenet:...vax135!timeinc!dwight Time Inc. Editorial Technology Group, New York City Voice: (212) 554-5061 \ Compuserve: 70210,523 Telemail: DERNEST/TIMECOMDIV/TIMEINC \ MCI: DERNEST "The opinions expressed above are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Time Incorporated or its management." "Doctor, we can't go flitting about the Universe with a dormant Gravis lying about the console, now can we?" --Tegan -----------------------------------------------------------------------------