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From: westmark!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson)
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Subject: Re: Wrong Numbers With Nobody Talking
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Date: 23 Sep 89 03:36:25 GMT
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In article , well!slf@lll-crg.llnl.
gov (Sharon Lynne Fisher) writes:
 ...
> I thought perhaps it was people calling me from a computer, but
> then I'd hear a modem tone, wouldn't I?...


No, Sharon, a modem originating a call to another modem remains
silent, and expects the answering modem to make a tone first. (Much
like people ... the answering party generally speaks first.)

Your calls may, in deed, be coming from a modem, or perhaps a fax
machine.  If it's convenient, you might wish to let your modem
answer, and see if the calling person or device responds to its
answer tone with a carrier.


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