Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: roy%phri@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Criticism of Call Forwarding Message-ID:Date: 1 Oct 89 15:19:43 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Roy Smith Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 15 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 424, message 5 of 9 With all this talk about non-ergonomic rings, I thought I would bring up another mis-feature. Our ATT System-25 at work doesn't have call forwarding, it has what we've come to refer to as call following. To trnasfer your calls to another phone, you have to go to that phone (known in the S25 manual as a "voice terminal") and do some magic there. To cancel the feature, you have to also do some magic at the remote phone. It works, but it's the reverse of the way people have been trained to think. I can't figure out why ATT decided to do it this way. Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"