Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unccvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unccvax!dsi From: dsi@unccvax.UUCP (Dataspan Inc) Newsgroups: net.analog Subject: Re: tel. long distance Message-ID: <316@unccvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 08:01:51 EDT Article-I.D.: unccvax.316 Posted: Thu Oct 24 08:01:51 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:26:13 EDT References: <138@biomed.UUCP> Organization: UNC-Charlotte Lines: 14 In about 99.5 % of cases I have found, the thing which sounds like a dial tone fading off into the distance is your cue to start punching in your credit card number with a DTMF pad. The minute you hit a key it stops. Of course, it must time out eventually and connect you to the operator for those people with pulse dialing. I have observed in some exchanges that dialing a "1" "0" will connect the operator immediately... is there any significance to this? David Anthony Chief Development Engineer DataSpan, Inc (and now, Anson County's only radio station, WADE) .