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From: plocher@puff.WISC.EDU (John Plocher)
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Subject: Re: touchtone dialing always works
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Date: Sat, 13-Dec-86 02:10:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 13 02:10:07 1986
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Bernd Riechelmann writes:
> I have learned to politely refuse this feature , because Touchtone always
> works, whether ordered or not.

Putting aside discussions of the morality of this... :-) I must say
that it just ain't so  *everywhere*.
  I live in a smallish town in Wisconsin (pop=3000) which has a MECHANICAL
(relay) based Central Office.  I had to order TT for my line because it didn't
work "out of the box".  The Phone Company came out to the CO and installed 
a DTMF => Pulse converter box between my line and their CO switch.
  The digital switches which are found in most major cities do not need this
black box addition; in fact the enabling of TT is (can be) a simple software
feature.  As you seem to have found, sometimes this feature is always
ON, but I'd think that the phone company would soon find out and fix the bug.
(visions of a set-uid file owned by root which someone inadvertantly
left writable by all... this is something sloppy which shouldn't have happened)
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