ole@csli.stanford.edu (Ole J. Jacobsen) (01/26/91)
I am happy to report a definite "yes you can do it" to a question that I have been wondering about for some time. Special thanks to Pete Ahrens of Pac*Bell for clarifying this. I have two lines, A and B, in "circular hunt" or "series completion". This means that if you call A and it is busy, B will ring. If you call B and it is busy, A will ring. So far, pretty basic stuff. I decided to add a third line C, which would be my "spillover" and allow me to receive a third call placed to either A or B when *both* were busy. This is accomplished quite readily by adding "busy call forwarding" to both A and B pointing to C. It turns out that the hunting is attempted *before* busy call forwarding is activated, and so the two services work nicely in conjunction. Another solution would have been to put A, B and C all in circular hunt, but the result would not have been quite the same, as a call to B would hunt to C before hunting to A. Thought you'd like to know. (And Higdon said it could not be done. :-) Ole J Jacobsen, Editor & Publisher ConneXions--The Interoperability Report Interop, Inc., 480 San Antonio Road, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA 94040, USA Phone: (415) 941-3399 FAX: (415) 949-1779 Email: ole@csli.stanford.edu