Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: hp-sdd!hpcilzb.HP.COM!rog@ucsd.edu (Roger Haaheim) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Wrong Numbers With Nobody Talking Message-ID:Date: 23 Sep 89 14:31:50 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA Lines: 2 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 406, message 3 of 12 Sounds like an autodialer listening for a "modem carrier"; when it doesn't get one, it hangs up and goes on to the next number.