Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: UUUUU
Message-ID: <582@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 88 19:16:33 GMT
References: <407880.880706.KFL@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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In article <407880.880706.KFL@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>, KFL@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Keith F. Lynch") writes:
> My Hayes 1200 gets into this mode once every few dozen hours of use.
> It doesn't seem to correlate with what I'm doing.  It sends a bunch
> of UUUUU to the host, and locally echos anything I type.  I can't
> find a way out of it except to turn it off and on again.
> 								...Keith

I've experienced this myself and the cause was, get this, ringing tone
on the line. The only way this can happen is if the phone company has
got your line crossed with someone elses, they recieve a call and you
get ringing voltage on your line. This also shows up as billing for
long distance calls you didn't make and so on. 

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