Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ima.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!ima!johnl From: johnl@ima.UUCP Newsgroups: net.dcom Subject: Re: Telco Hassles Message-ID: <105900004@ima.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 19:35:00 EST Article-I.D.: ima.105900004 Posted: Fri Oct 25 19:35:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 00:26:49 EST References: <233@uhpgvax.UUCP> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:uhpgvax:-23300:ima:105900004:000:420 Nf-From: ima!johnl Oct 25 18:35:00 1985 > [Hanging up the receiving end usually breaks the circuit.] > The only case where this doesn't happen is in local calls in extremely > old-style step-by-step telephone exchanges, which are few and far between > these days. I note that this problem occurred in Hawaii, where the phone company is a traditionally sleepy subsidiary of ITT. Perhaps there really is an ancient step exchange there. John Levine, ima!johnl