singer@uwovax.uwo.ca (Ben Singer) (01/30/91)
Every now and then I receive a message on my answering machine (same
line as my Panasonic 3910R) telling me I attempted to dial a long
distance number incorrectly or something that effect (of course, a
recorded message). Does anybody have any idea of why this should be,
or has anybody had the same experience? I wonder if it is in any way
associated with cordless phone use; yet, how does it get on the
answering machine tape? Is it possible that the cordless phone is
initiating calls that somehow seep into the answering machine? Or, is
this the kind of thing that might occur independently of the cordless
phone? An enigma ...
Ben Singer Department of Sociology
University of Western Ontario
Singer@uwo.ca London, Ontario N6A 5C2
Singer@uwovax.bitnet (519) 660-0671 (home) (519) 679-2111 Ext 5137USENET_INTERFACE@ibm.com (02/05/91)
When someone calls my answering machine and hangs up just before the
beep, the machine will often wind up recording the "You have exceeded
the time allotted to dial this call" message from the phone company.
The timing has to be just right for this to happen; usually, the
machine detects and erases null calls.
David Singer -- Internet: singer@ibm.com BITNET: SINGER at ALMADEN
Voice: (408) 927-2509 Fax: (408) 927-4073
(amusing disclaimer du jour goes here)ted@blia.sharebase.com (Ted Marshall) (02/05/91)
I don't think it's your cordless phone but your answering machine, although this depends on exactly what message you are getting. I use to get the last part of the message "Your call cannot be completed as dialed; please hang up ..." on my answering machine. What I finally descovered was that the caller(s) was hanging up as soon as my outgoing message started. During the time that the rest of the outgoing message was playing, the phone company presented and then timed-out dial-tone (because the outgoing message was playing, the machine did not notice the hang-up or dial-time). By the time the machine started recording the incoming message, the phone co. was playing the dial-tone time-out message, which the AM recorded. I solved the problem by shortening my outgoing message so the AM would notice the dial-tone. Ted Marshall ted@airplane.sharebase.com ShareBase Corp., 14600 Winchester Blvd, Los Gatos, Ca 95030 (408)378-7000 The opinions expressed above are those of the poster and not his employer.