cowan@uunet.uu.net> (05/15/91)
The Esteemed Moderator writes: > [Moderator's Note: How could this be? Did you mean it gets the person > to return the call quicker or it somehow gets the transmission out to > the pager a little faster? Why would anyone necessarily rush to the > phone faster to call because they saw '00'? Explain please. PAT] Probably means that the pager system accepts up to ten digits, and if you enter a seven-digit number and then pad with "*00" it doesn't need to time out. "#" might work, too. cowan@snark.thyrsus.com ...!uunet!cbmvax!snark!cowan [Moderator's Note: The 'official' answer to this will be given in an issue of the Digest later today. I have a message in the queue which explains what the original author meant. PAT]