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From: lloyd!kent@husc6.harvard.edu (Kent Borg)
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Subject: Re: Bay of Eagle Fiasco
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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
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