Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: lloyd!kent@husc6.harvard.edu (Kent Borg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Bay of Eagle Fiasco Message-ID:Date: 14 Aug 89 23:22:00 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Kent Borg Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA Lines: 23 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 297, message 5 of 8 In article desnoyer@apple.com (Peter Desnoyers) writes: >I tried it - 9, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 - and got > tick, tick, tick... (unusual, regular, call progress clicks) > "the person you are trying to reach is unavailable or out of our service > area. Please try ..." and I forget the rest. Our PBX traps it locally and gives me an immediate busy signal. The phone on my desk says Ameritech on it. The designers knew that people expect to hear tones when they dial a push button phone, but they are not using tones to communicate with the PBX, so they have two single tones which alternate with each keystroke. Are people so tone deaf that they are fooled?? I like hearing the real touch-tones. I get to know frequently called numbers, can dial them quickly, and hear if I make a mistake. Do many people use that as an error checking feature, or is everyone deaf? Kent Borg kent@lloyd.uiucp or ...!husc6!lloyd!kent