lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird P. Broadfield) (04/14/91)
Speaking of those credit-card reading airport phones here in PacBell
land, have you all noticed that they show (on the LCD) the digits, as
you dial, *even after the call has connected*? (I.e. including
whatever you key in to your favorite voice-response/voice-mail
system.)
Now maybe I'm just paranoid, but this always makes me glance over my
shoulder when using these.
Well, AT&T has gone one better. We've recently purchased several new
desk-sets (single line model 730, two-line model 732). The
interesting bit here is that on the nice display that shows date-time
when on hook, and what you're dialing when off-hook, will also show
you last-dialed when you pick up the phone again. It even obligingly
scrolls through the first 16 digits (display is 12 wide) for you.
I've been amusing myself walking around the office this weekend
reading people's voicemail passwords off these. I don't think I'll
ask for one anytime soon.
(P.S. We've got "COCOT sleeze" and "telemarketing sleeze", but what
do you call the new variety of sleeze that does inside-wiring and
sells you cheap and/or unnecessary premises equipment? An amazing
number of these have sprung up out here. (Actually, these AT&T sets
seem pretty solid (except for the above feature); it's those godawful
GE sets they sold us that I'm still peeved about ....))
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